Maya Kern's webcomic How to Be a Mermaid (2012) retells H. C. Andersen's “The Little Mermaid” tale as one of love and awakening between a princess and a mermaid. By building on Andersen's sexual ...tension, explicitly queering the tale, and distributing her webcomic for free, Kern challenges Disney's pervasive and powerful animated version. Reading her webcomic intertextually with both Andersen's story and Disney's remake of it, I trace her resistance and the ways in which she opens the tale up for new readings.
Carmen Maria Machado's story collection Her Body and Other Parties (2017) is steeped in folklore. The story “Real Women Have Bodies” draws on the folklore tradition of the animal or supernatural ...bride, featuring the disappearance of women despite attempts to retain them. As in enchanted bride stories, these women are associated with an article of clothing that functions as a skin. This essay argues that the story shifts the focus of the traditional story from men's fears to women's, while offering glimpses of possibility for women to resist and to care for each other, particularly in the context of queer relationships.
Pataphysical Assemblages COOKSEY, THOMAS L.
The Comparatist,
10/2019, Letnik:
43, Številka:
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The feature length French animation Le roi et l'oiseau (1947–1952, 1967–1980), later appearing in English as The King and the Mockingbird (2014), was a labor of love and the thirty-year collaboration ...between the animator Paul Grimault and the poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert (Les Enfants du Paradis 1945). Based on Hans Christian Andersen's fable, La bergère et le ramoneur (The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep), Le roi has produced mixed responses (Pagliano, Le roi 47–51). Many considered it one of the finest feature length works of French animation, a work that has influenced subsequent French animators such as René Laloux (La planète sauvage 1973; The Fantastic Planet) and Jean-François Laguionie (Le Tableau 2011), and more explicitly the anime of Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Studio Ghibli. We might also mention Brad Bird's 1999 The Iron Giant. The thirty-year history of the film reflects Grimault's obsession with his creative vision.
In this respect, I state the need to discover or rediscover children's literature as adult readers. From the contri* butions of studies related to psychoanalysis, I mainly analyze why the greatest ...literature classics relate to children's literature. Keywords: Children's literature, reading promotion, Gabriela Mistral, Marcela Paz, Hans Christian Andersen. Estados Unidos: Castle Rock Entertainment y Nelson Entertainment.
E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and Mouse King is rarely brought into the orbit of children's literature, in large part because it has become part of the world of ballet and Christmas confections. ...In many ways, however, it is a foundational work of children's literature, for it establishes a secondary world that sets the stage for later works like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Chronicles of Narnia. I propose to look at how aesthetic enchantments are recruited to create other worlds that draw children in. The frenzied language of nonsense that marks the transition from ordinary reality to the surreal will come under investigation, as well as the ontological uncertainty that is the price for entering other worlds.
The Danish slave trade had officially been abolished in 1803, but the institution of racialized slavery was alive and well on the sugar plantations in the Danish West Indies. Since the acquisition of ...Saint croix from France in 1733, the number of sugar plantations under Danish authority had steadily grown, accompanied by a need for more enslaved labor. the sugar industry in copenhagen truly took offin the second half of the eighteenth century, and in the century to follow, sugar production proved tremendously important for the economic development of the city-at times, the export of refined and unrefined sugar made up to 90 percent of the net worth of all exports of industrial products from Copenhagen (Sveistrup and Willerslev 1945, 40-1; see also Ipsen 2015, 90-2). In the movie, the story about the Danish slave trade is told as a traditional colonial story of a young and handsome white idealistic man encountering the horrors and darkness of slave trading in Africa-in ways very similar to Joseph Conrad's classic Heart of Darkness (1899), including traveling up a wide river and reaching the climax of confrontation with his inner demons in a lightless dungeon representing the dark "heart" of Africa.
What helped influence Oscar Wilde to write such a unique fairy tale as “The Nightingale and the Rose” was other scholars and works of fiction. Ideas he agreed with, and methods he made use of, came ...from John Ruskin and Hans Christian Andersen. Closely examining this fairy tale by Wilde demonstrates his interest in revising existing forms for the fairy tale, and engaging contemporary conversations about value. Wilde’s story wrestles with the relative value of love, physical beauty, knowledge, and art, in direct response to arguments made by writers and philosophers who influenced him. Wilde’s fairy tale offers a satirical view of 19th century English society, and posits the importance of individualism in the face of materialism and conformity. Further examination of Wilde’s influences and teachers supports the claim that Wilde is showcasing materialism as a barrier between characters and their authentic selves.
This thesis engages with recent inquiries into the intersection of Black studies, ecocriticism, and animal studies to examine the role played by ecological entities and non-human animality in Nella ...Larsen’s Quicksand (1928). Building on the work of such scholars as Joshua Bennett and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, it explores how Larsen’s Harlem Renaissance novel employs various modernist strategies to confront the racialized political and aesthetic formations that define and separate (white) Man from Black humanity, as well as the ways in which the non-human threads through such a political-aesthetic distinction. Quicksand dramatizes the destabilization of its protagonist, her desires, and her identity to explore and critique the composition of this structure, as well its imbrication in modernist tropes concerning nature. Far from allowing its protagonist to stabilize her identity with or against the non-human, Quicksand repeatedly reveals that the non-human is not a stabilizing narrative element. The concluding section of this thesis briefly explores Jean Toomer’s experimental book Cane (1923), setting it alongside Larsen’s novel to explore how a contrasting Harlem Renaissance text handles the relationship of Blackness, ecology, and white supremacy.
International youth literature -- translated books and English-language imports first published outside of the US -- can be the missing link in diversifying collections. Their diversity discussions ...tend to focus on multicultural literature that is originally published in the US. At first glance diverse books from here and abroad can seem indistinguishable since they may have a similar focus or setting -- that is, by race, ethnicity, ability, socioeconomic status, etc. -- so it is not surprising that international books are often mistaken for multicultural books. Sometimes only a close look will reveal that a book has been translated or was first published in English abroad. Reading international youth literature moves us to the margins for a change and is an opportunity to see what the rest of the world thinks. Each book also contains a selected list of resources such as awards and organizations as well as several essays about international children's literature.
FROM THE EDITORS Bacchilega, Cristina; Duggan, Anne E
Marvels & tales,
01/2015, Letnik:
29, Številka:
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Together these essays invite the queering of fairy tales across mediums, time, and place in ways that challenge the conventional understanding of the genre as predominantly heteronormative.
