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...Kathryn Bond Stockton HARZEWSKI STEPHANIE , Chick Lit and Postfeminism ( Charlottesville : U of Virginia P , 2011 ), pp. 264 , cloth, $55.00 , paper, $19.50 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Toeholds and Sticking Points STEPHANIE...

... such as “chick-lit,” young-adult literature, and the romance novel. In sum, the disaster unconscious is embedded in “liberatory politics seeking to redress the specific disaster in a particular literary text, while staging a broader allegorical claim about nation, state, and race” (6). Structured around four...

... of narrative closure with the satisfaction of balancing accounts: Chick Mallison incurs a debt to Lucas Beauchamp when he commits the white adolescent faux pas of offering coins to Molly after Lucas generously feeds him, but he dramatically pays it off by saving the wrongfully accused Lucas from a lynching...

... the guillotine of the second had fallen sharply on the ticking head of the minute”—to the absurdly convoluted description of a woman crying: “The wells of her eyes were irrigated with tears. Her eyelashes dipped in and out of that pool like chicks scratching the dust with their hungry feet” (22, 84...

... of the bush, on the ground, fetched up amongst seven ptarmigan chicks” (161). Here, the “sheer blundering” of the animal’s body allows access to an unknown space distinctly opposed to the “determinate realm” of human spectators. Moreover, the wolf’s sense of enmesh- ment with the environment is shown...