Tales for Fairies by Alba Morolln Daz-Faes, Anne E. Duggan - 9780814350430

Tales for FairiesTracing Queer Fairy-Tale Retellings\nAuthor(s): Alba Morolln Daz-Faes, Anne E. Duggan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Wayne State University Press, United States\nImprint: Wayne State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814350430, 978-0814350430\nSynopsis\nA groundbreaking exploration of how classic fairy tales have been transformed to illuminate and celebrate queer identities.\n\n This scholarly account provides a trailblazing examination of how contemporary authors, artists, and creators have reclaimed the fairy tale for queer audiences. Alba Morolln Daz-Faes examines the queer threads in classic fairy taleslike those in the works of Giambattista Basile, the Brothers Grimm, and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoywhile tracing how queer communities have reshaped these stories to reflect changing social and political realities from the 1990s to the present. This comprehensive study historicizes three periods of queer transformation of the fairy tale: the first wave of fairy-tale publi.