The Heroines of chick lit: Projecting ‘The Modern Woman’

Abstract

Chicklit explains that chick lit genre reflects “the lives of the everyday working young woman” and appeals to readers who “want to see their own lives in all the messy detail, reflected in fiction today”. But some writers and critics describe it as a mere fluff or garbage and wastage of time. This present paper presents the characteristics of chicklit heroines and how their lives reflect the lives of the everyday working women,with the arguments in favour of “CHICK LIT” genre. It’s an important genre which deals with the problems of those women who are caught between the competing demands of feminism and being an independent woman. It is a via media which helps the women. It’s more like an escape, which helps the women too choose. This genre gives them a satisfaction that they are not alone with such and such problem; there are many more like them, to whom they can relate.