Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies) - Brossura

Lau, Kimberly J.

 
9780814341346: Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0814341349 ISBN 13: 9780814341346
Casa editrice: Wayne State University Press, 2024

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A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales.

In stories retold for generations, wondrous worlds and magnificent characters have defined the genre of European fairy tales with little recognition of yet another defining aspect-racism and racialized thinking. Engaging four classic fairy-tale collections, author Kimberly J. Lau connects close readings of the tales to the cultural discourses, scholarly debates, and imperial geopolitics that established and perpetuated ideas about racial difference and white superiority. Within the tales of Giambattista Basile, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, the Grimms, and Andrew and Nora Lang, Lau teases apart and historicizes the racialized themes and ideologies embedded within fairy tales spanning the early seventeenth to early twentieth centuries. She contends that the European fairy tale is definitively marked, whether implicitly or explicitly, by whiteness, and given the genre's documented colonization of diverse narrative traditions over time, this specter of race is all the more haunting. This trailblazing work demonstrates the continuous evolution of racialized thinking that has informed the publication and dissemination of fairy tales. Here, Lau provides a new framework for understanding European fairy tales in the milieux in which they were created, bringing distant and ethereal worlds back to earth.

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Editore
Wayne State University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0814341349
ISBN 13 
9780814341346
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Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
256
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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9780814351536: Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies)

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ISBN 10:  0814351530 ISBN 13:  9780814351536
Casa editrice: Wayne State University Press, 2024
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