Fairy Tales Reimagined

Susan Redington Bobby is an associate professor of English at Wesley College. She is the editor of Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings (McFarland, 2009), the author of Beyond His Dark Materials: Innocence and Experience in the Fiction of Philip Pullman (McFarland 2012), and the author of a critical essay in the His Dark Materials Casebook (Palgrave 2014).

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Foreword: The Affect of Fairy TalesKATE BERNHEIMER      Introduction: Authentic Voices in Contemporary Fairy TalesSUSAN REDINGTON BOBBY      Redefining Gender and SexualityQueering the Fairy Tale Canon: Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the WitchMARTINE HENNARD DUTHEIL DE LA ROCHÈRE      Contemporary Women Poets and the Fairy TaleCHRISTA MASTRANGELO JOYCE      Struggling Sisters and Failing Spells: Re-engendering Fairy Tale Heroism in Peg Kerr’s The Wild SwansBETHANY JOY BEAR      Found Girls: J.M. Barrie’s Peter & Wendy and Jane Yolen’s “Lost Girls”JOANNE CAMPBELL TIDWELL      Inventions and Transformations: Imagining New Worlds in the Stories of Neil GaimanMATHILDA SLABBERT      Rewriting Narrative Forms“And the Princess, Telling the Story”: A.S. Byatt’s Self-Reflexive Fairy StoriesJEFFREY K. GIBSON      Between Wake and Sleep: Robert Coover’s Briar Rose, A Playful Reawakening of The Sleeping BeautyMARIE C. BOUCHET      Winterson’s Wonderland: The PowerBook as a Postmodern Re-Vision of Lewis Carroll’s Alice BooksMAUREEN TORPEY      “I Think You Are Not Telling Me All of This Story”: Storytelling, Fate, and Self-Determination in Robin McKinley’s Folktale RevisionsAMIE A. DOUGHTY      Remembering Trauma and DystopiaThe Complete Tales of Kate Bernheimer: Postmodern Fairytales in a Dystopian WorldHELEN PILINOVSKY      The Fairy Tale as Allegory for the Holocaust: Representing the Unrepresentable in Yolen’s Briar Rose and Murphy’s Hansel and GretelMARGARETE J. LANDWEHR      “This Gospel of My Hell”: The Narration of Violence in Gaétan Soucy’s The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of MatchesLAUREN CHOPLIN      Revolutionizing Culture and PoliticsNegotiating Wartime Masculinity in Bill Willingham’s FablesMARK C. HILL      Philip Pullman’s I Was a Rat! and the Fairy-Tale Retelling as Instrument of Social CriticismVANESSA JOOSEN      The Wicked Witch of the West: Terrorist? Rewriting Evil in Gregory Maguire’s WickedCHRISTOPHER ROMAN      Embracing Equality: Class Reversals and Social Reform in Shannon Hale’s The Goose Girl and Princess AcademySUSAN REDINGTON BOBBY      Comprehensive Bibliography      About the Contributors      Index

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