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Fairy tales reimagined : essays on new retellings / edited by Susan Redington Bobby ; foreword by Kate Bernheimer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Fairy tales.
- Fairy tales--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Although readers and filmgoers are strongly familiar with Disney's sanitized child-centric fairy tales, they are quick to catch on to reworkings of classic tales into a contemporary context. The rise is such retellings seems to indicate that readers are hungry for a new narrative, one that hearkens back to the old yet moves the storyline forward to reflect conditions of the modern world. No mere escapist fantasies, the reimagined fairy tales of the late 20th and early 21st centuries reflect social, political and cultural truths. Sixteen essays consider fairy tales recreated through short stori
- Contents:
- Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Redefining Gender and Sexuality; Queering the Fairy Tale Canon; Contemporary Women Poets and the Fairy Tale; Struggling Sisters and Failing Spells; Found Girls; Inventions and Transformations; Rewriting Narrative Forms; "And the Princess, Telling the Story"; Between Wake and Sleep; Winterson's Wonderland; "I Think You Are Not Telling Me All of This Story"; Remembering Trauma and Dystopia; The Complete Tales of Kate Bernheimer; The Fairy Tale as Allegory for the Holocaust; "This Gospel of My Hell"
- Revolutionizing Culture and PoliticsNegotiating Wartime Masculinity in Bill Willingham's Fables; Philip Pullman's I Was a Rat! and the Fairy-Tale Retelling as Instrument of Social Criticism; The Wicked Witch of the West; Embracing Equality; Comprehensive Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7864-5396-6
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