Reading Children’s Fairytales by Lindahl-Wise, Mette; Oulton, Harry; Macleroy, Vicky;

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Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House brings together leading and emerging researchers and practitioners to showcase how interdisciplinary approaches enable diverse responses to texts. 

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Fairy tales form a cornerstone of children’s and YA literature studies, and the tale of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ has been translated, adapted and retold across the years. Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House brings together leading and emerging researchers and practitioners to showcase how interdisciplinary approaches enable diverse responses to texts. This edited collection opens up possibilities for cross-pollination between critical, multimodal and creative approaches. It celebrates multiple forms of knowledge and meaning-making within and beyond academic discourse, and engages young people in the conversation. The authors explore a wide range of retellings of ‘Hansel and Gretel’, from children’s picturebooks, graphic novels, poetry and young adult fiction to sculpture and hip hop, to offer a comprehensive investigation of the tale. The volume also benefits from the voices of acclaimed creative writers who create and reflect on retellings that cross cultural and international boundaries. In engaging with such a range of popular retellings, the chapters bring a renewed attention to the need to disrupt hierarchical and canonical perspectives on children’s and YA literature.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Preface            Harry Oulton, Mette Lindahl-Wise, Vicky Macleroy and Emily Corbett

Introduction   Jack Zipes

Section 1: Theoretical Perspectives  

01.            Silently Taking up Space: Gretel Retells  

Alice Penfold

02.            A Word after a Word is Power: Fairy Tale Misogyny Reinforced and Overthrown

Mette Lindahl-Wise

03.            Using Critical Race Theory to Explore the Potential of Children’s Texts as Counternarratives

Seraphina Simmons-Bah

04.            Defamiliarising the Forest: An Eco-gothic Reading of ‘Hansel and Gretel’     

Sara Shahwan

05.            Translating and Transforming ‘Hansel and Gretel’         

Jack Zipes

06.            The Hourglass of Adaptation      

Harry Oulton

Section 2: Multimodal Approaches  

07.            The Fairy Tales Live On: Marketing ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and Other Tales to a Young Adult Audience  

Emily Corbett

08.            Exploring the Transgressive, Taboo and Far Out in a Graphic Novel of ‘Hansel and Gretel’          

Vicky Macleroy

09.            Feeling the Story: A New Materialist Approach to Exploring an Embodied Reading of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ in The Singing Bones     

Helen Jones

10.            Hip Hop Hansel and Gretel          

Christian Foley

11.            Entangled Adaptations: Gretel Redesigned        

Sam Holdstock

Section 3: Personal and Creative Responses

12.            Approaching ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Inside Out      

Michael Rosen

13.            Using ‘Hansel and Gretel’ to Nurture Creative Healing and Augment Psychic Realities

Francis Gilbert

14.            ‘Hansel and Gretel’ – Sustaining Stories and the Ache for Home in Red Leaves      

Sita Brahmachari

15.            We'll Leave The Light On For You

Anna Dempsey

16.            Hanif and Gazal   

Ardashir Vakil