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Sleeping Beauty
A beautiful princess is put into a deep sleep by a curse until she is awakened by a brave prince.
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Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation
Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists
from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about
African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked
within but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions.
They often called into question the meaning of the very folklore
projects in which they were engaged.
Shirley Moody-Turner analyzes this output, along with the
contributions of a disparate group of African American authors and
scholars. She explores how black authors and folklorists were
active participants--rather than passive observers--in
conversations about the politics of representing black folklore.
Examining literary texts, folklore documents, cultural
performances, legal discourse, and political rhetoric, Black
Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation
demonstrates how folklore studies became a battleground across
which issues of racial identity and difference were asserted and
debated at the turn of the twentieth century. The study is framed
by two questions of historical and continuing import. What role
have representations of black folklore played in constructing
racial identity? And, how have those ideas impacted the way African
Americans think about and creatively engage black traditions?
Moody-Turner renders established historical facts in a new light
and context, taking figures we thought we knew--such as Charles
Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, and Paul Laurence Dunbar--and
recasting their place in African American intellectual and cultural
history.
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Ossiri and the Bala Mengro
A Traveller girl creates her own musical instrument from a willow branch and lots of recycled objects. She plays it enthusiastically, but it sounds terrible! Ignoring warnings not to awaken the ogre in the hills, Ossiri goes there to practice playing her instrument. Will she wake the ogre, and will it appreciate her playing?
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Goldilocks and the three bears
Three bears return home from a walk to find a little girl asleep in baby bear's bed.
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Contemporary fiction and the fairy tale
Recent decades have witnessed a renaissance of interest in the fairy tale, not least among writers of fiction. In Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale, editor Stephen Benson argues that fairy tales are one of the key influences on fiction of the past thirty years and also continue to shape literary trends in the present. Contributors detail the use of fairy tales both as inspiration and blueprint and explore the results of juxtaposing fairy tales and contemporary fiction.
At the heart of this collection, seven leading scholars focus on authors whose work is heavily informed and transformed by fairy tales: Robert Coover, A. S. Byatt, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, and Salman Rushdie. In addition to investigating the work of this so-called fairy-tale generation, Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale provides a survey of the body of theoretical writing surrounding these authors, both from within literary studies and from fairy-tale studies itself. Contributors present an overview of critical positions, considered here in relation to the work of Jeanette Winterson and of Nalo Hopkinson, suggesting further avenues for research.
Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale offers the first detailed and comprehensive account of the key authors working in this emerging genre. Students and teachers of fiction, folklore, and fairy-tale studies will appreciate this insightful volume.
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King Arthur : Sir Thomas Malory's history of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table
Recounts the adventures of King Arthur and his legendary Knights of the Round Table.
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Social Dreaming
Dickens was known for his incredible imagination and fiery social protest.In Social Dreaming , Elaine Ostry examines how these two qualities are linked through Dickens's use of the fairy tale, a genre that infuses his work.
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Born in a mighty bad land : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction
The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like Stagolee and John Hardy, as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced gangsta rap. Born in a Mighty Bad Land connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction. Many writers -- McKay and Hurston in the Harlem Renaissance; Wright, Baldwin, and Ellison in the '40s and '50s; Himes in the '50s and '60s -- saw the bad nigger as an archetypal figure in the black imagination and psyche. Blaxploitation novels in the '70s made him a virtually mythical character. More recently, Mosley, Wideman, and Morrison have presented him as ghetto philosopher and cultural adventurer. Behind the folklore and fiction, many theories have been proposed to explain the source of the bad man's intra-racial violence. Jerry H. Bryant explores all of these elements in a wide-ranging and illuminating look at one of the most misunderstood figures in African American culture.
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