...Charmaine Carvalho Although chick lit, epitomized by novels such as Bridget Jones’s Diary , has been analyzed by feminist critics as an example of postfeminist culture, the transnational spread of the genre has resulted in transformations that invite fresh consideration. In the Indian context...

... this demented idea. Charmaine Carvalho s Flight from the Womb: Mothers and Daughters in Indian Chick Lit sets out to invert the usual expectations of this com- mon writing style. Her genre chick lit is, as with most things in our times, an international genus; but according to Carvalho, it has local work...

... China (2018). Charmaine Carvalho is an independent scholar who earned her PhD from Hong Kong Bap- tist University. Her research interests are gender, feminism, and popular culture. She is the author of Chick Lit in India: Possibilities for a Feminine Aesthetics in Popular Fiction published in The Polish...

... program. The article uses the image of the develop- ment stages of a chick embryo, and the formation of its spinal cord, in order to explain what constituted a natural organizing structure. Tokyo was an organism that needed to evolve from a closed...

... machinery — and a boy’s recollections of the exalted positions 22:2  Spring 2014 358 journey from his Japanese village to the Manchurian frontier. A shot of a smiling young man holding newly hatched chicks cuts...

... of the realist orientation in animated film, as evi- dent in the debates over the release of The Red Cloud Cliff in that year. This scepticism culminated in the release of the model animated filmHeroic Lit- tle Sisters of the Grassland in 1965. Although...