Description

Explores how contemporary issues of social justice and social change are represented, examined and interrogated in modern versions and adaptations of fairy tales across novels, film and TV.

Exploring a range of international works such as films, streaming television series, a graphic novel, and a picture book, this open access book interrogates how, and to what extent, fairy tales are put to work for justice in the areas of environment and ecology, kinship and family, ability and disability, and sex and gender. As Bacchilega and Greenhill demonstrate, some 21st-century fairy tales channel the genre’s wonder to offer otherwise possibilities for being and acting in the world that are not confined to socially sanctioned paths. Drawing on visual and audio-visual case studies of texts such as The Magic Fish, Julián Is A Mermaid, Pokot [Spoor], Gräns [Border], The Dragon Prince, Gatta Cenerentola [Cinderella the Cat], and Sweet Tooth, they examine how the wonder and preternatural of fairy tales model a sustained desire to believe in and realize new ways of existence that have often been too easily dismissed. Guided by theories in fields including ecological, gender, disability, critical race, Indigenous, fantasy, posthuman, and adaptation studies as they intersect with folklore and fairy tale studies, this book examines how creators of wonder tales since the beginning of the new millenium have presented provocations around humans’ political and social relations with nature and culture. Analyzing justice from a variety of positions and establishing how tales of the otherwise can develop optative thinking, Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder refutes the conservative, patriarchal, and merely nostalgic Disnified narrative of the genre and insists on the power of wonder within and beyond fairy tales.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant 435-2019-0691 and The University of Winnipeg, Canada.

Langue

en

Version

Broché

Date de sortie initiale

20 août 2026

Nombre de pages

232

Personnes impliquées

Auteur principal

Cristina Bacchilega

Deuxième auteur

Pauline Greenhill

Editeur principal

Bloomsbury Academic

Informations sur le fabricant

Nom du fabricant

Christina Gladhill

Adresse électronique du fabricant

privacy@globepequot.com

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Hauteur de l’emballage

25 mm

Largeur d’emballage

156 mm

Largeur du produit

156 mm

Livre d‘étude

Non

Longueur d’emballage

234 mm

Longueur du produit

234 mm

EAN

EAN

9781350348301

Sécurité des produits

Opérateur économique responsable dans l’UE

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