Welcome to another juicy episode of "Literature Done Juicy" with your host Jade! In this season, we're delving into novels featuring lost protagonists, and today, we're unearthing the intriguing world of the Aussie novel "West Girls" by Laura Elizabeth Woollett.
In this fourth episode of our second season, we explore the captivating themes of racial passing, pretty privilege, the modeling industry, and the power of nostalgia. Woollett's contemporary tale takes a sharp, dry, and sarcastic approach to these significant issues.
Sources:
An Involvement Explanation for Nostalgia Advertising Effects - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Darrel-Muehling/publication/254370594_An_Involvement_Explanation_for_Nostalgia_Advertising_Effects/links/57977f9e08aed51475e69bb1/An-Involvement-Explanation-for-Nostalgia-Advertising-Effects.pdf
Asian Fashion Brands White Models - https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/asian-fashion-brands-white-models/
Childhood brand nostalgia: A new conceptualization and scale development - http://glassyad.ir/journals/Journal_of_Consumer_Behaviour/2016/Journal_of_Consumer_Behaviour_July_August_2016.pdf#page=71
Death by Nostalgia - https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/death-by-nostalgia-1688-69596
Eurasian Persuasions: Mixed Race, Performative and Cosmopolitanism - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258510543_Eurasian_Persuasions_Mixed_Race_Performativity_and_Cosmopolitanism
Exploring the concept of passing in biracial-white college students- https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI3703196/
Exporting Social Psychology: Effects of Attractiveness on Perceptions of Entrepreneurs, Their Ideas for New Products, and Their Financial Success - https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/46798018/Exporting_Social_Psychology_Effects_of_A20160626-1551-19ezitt-libre.pdf?1466927337=&response
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