This essay discusses essentially three practices of fairy-tale adaptations in the English-speaking world and their cultural implications: 1.“politically correct” rewritings, 2. postmodernist/metafictional rewritings 3. feminist rewritings. It argues that by revitalizing canonical fairy-tale values and conventions, fairy-tale discourse can become emancipatory and innovative.

Did they live happily ever after? Rewriting fairy tales for a contemporary audience

TOSI, Laura
2006-01-01

Abstract

This essay discusses essentially three practices of fairy-tale adaptations in the English-speaking world and their cultural implications: 1.“politically correct” rewritings, 2. postmodernist/metafictional rewritings 3. feminist rewritings. It argues that by revitalizing canonical fairy-tale values and conventions, fairy-tale discourse can become emancipatory and innovative.
2006
Children's Literature. Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies
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