Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century
Cristina Bacchilega, "Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century "
English | ISBN: 0814347002 | 2021 | 225 pages | EPUB | 25 MB
English | ISBN: 0814347002 | 2021 | 225 pages | EPUB | 25 MB
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene in a range of ways to challenge the popular perception of fairy tales as narratives offering heteronormative happy endings that support status-quo values. The materials collected in Inviting Interruptions address the many ways intersectional issues play out in terms of identity markers, such as race, ethnicity, class, and disability, and the forces that affect identity, such as non-normative sexualities, addiction, abuses of power, and forms of internalized self-hatred caused by any number of external pressures. But we also find celebration, whimsy, and beauty in these same texts―qualities intended to extend readers' enjoyment of and pleasure in the genre.
Edited by Cristina Bacchilega and Jennifer Orme, the book is organized in two sections. "Inviting Interruptions" considers the invitation as an offer that must be accepted in order to participate, whether for good or ill. This section includes Emma Donoghue's literary retelling of "Hansel and Gretel," stills from David Kaplan's short
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