Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century
ISBN 10: 0367472775 ISBN 13: 9780367472771
Published by Routledge, 2023
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Volume two explores the way a wide range of classic princess tales written by marginalized writers. Rapunzel and Snow White, with their pale skin or long ropes of golden hair, are particularly popular vehicles for exploring and challenging racialized constructions of beauty. Marriage is the traditional vehicle of a happy ending in Princess tales, so marginalized responses to these tales also inherently respond to the doubly colonized position of women in the Anglophone world. The institution of marriage typically exposes the institutional oppression of colonized women. Authors include Charles Chesnutt, Jessie Fauset, Julia Kavanaugh, George Edwards, some of the unpublished manuscripts of Jewish-Australian author Joseph Jacobs, and the earliest work of Sinčad de Valera, as well as fin-de-sičcle illustrators such as Harry Clarke, and collected oral tales.
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Dr. Abigail Heiniger, Assistant Professor of Literature and Languages and Department Chair, teaches
literature and writing at Lincoln Memorial University, USA
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Title: Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth ...
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New