The Liberation of Fairy-Tale Heroines in James Finn Garner’s Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

IF 0.1 4区社会学 0 FOLKLORE

FABULA Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.1515/fabula-2022-0009

Biljana Vlašković Ilić

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Abstract

Abstract This paper reexamines the way in which traditional fairy tales depict famous heroines (Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Cinderella, and Snow White) by comparing them to their “liberated” versions from James Finn Garner’s Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. We argue that the greatest value of the modern adaptations of classic fairy tales lies in their enabling us to see the world as a child might, introducing at the same time the grown-up theme of the liberation of women and breaking the pattern of portraying easily led, ineffectual, and vulnerable female characters in children’s literature.

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詹姆斯·芬恩·加纳政治正确睡前故事中童话英雄的解放

摘要本文通过与詹姆斯·芬恩·加纳的《政治正确的睡前故事》中的“解放”版本的比较，重新审视了传统童话对著名女英雄（小红帽、长发公主、灰姑娘和白雪公主）的刻画方式。我们认为，经典童话的现代改编最大的价值在于，它们使我们能够像看待孩子一样看待世界，同时引入了女性解放的成人主题，打破了儿童文学中塑造容易被引导、无效和脆弱的女性角色的模式。

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FABULA FOLKLORE-

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期刊介绍： Fabula is a medium of discussion for issues of all kinds which are of interest to international folk narrative research. The journal contains eight divisions: Articles, Minor Contributions, Research Reports and Conference Reports, News, Projects and Queries, Reviews, Bibliographical Notes, and Books Received. Principal themes of the article section are the study of popular narrative traditions in their various forms (fairy tales, legends, jokes and anecdotes, exempla, fables, ballads, etc.), the interrelationship between oral and literary traditions as well as the contemporary genres. Interest focuses on Europe and overseas countries which are influenced by European civilization, but still, there is quite a number of contributions from other culture areas.