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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826316703321

Titolo

Transgressive tales [[electronic resource] ] : queering the Grimms / / edited by Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8143-3810-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Collana

Series in fairy-tale studies

Altri autori (Persone)

TurnerKay <1948->

GreenhillPauline

Disciplina

398.20943

Soggetti

Queer theory

Homosexuality in literature

Fairy tales - Germany - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-338) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Series Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Once Upon a Queer Time""; ""Faux Femininities""; ""1. Whetting Her Appetite: What's a Clever Woman To Do in the Grimms Collection?                                                                                         ""

""2. Nurtured in a Lonely Place: The Wise Woman as Type in The Goose Girl at the Spring""""3. Queering Kinship in The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brother""; ""4. But Who Are You Really?: Ambiguous Bodies and Ambiguous Pronouns in Allerleirauh"";  ""Revising Rewritings""

""5. A Desire for Death: The Grimms Sleeping Beauty in The Bloody Chamber""""6. Happily Ever After . . . According to Our Tastes: Jeanette Winterson's Twelve Dancing Princesses and Queer Possibility""

""7. The Lost Sister: Lesbian Eroticism and Female Empowerment in Snow White and Rose Red""""Queering the Tales""; ""8. Queering Gender: Transformations in Peg Bearskin, La Poiluse, and Related Tales""

""9. The True (False) Bride and the False (True) Bridegroom: Fitcher's Bird and Gendered Virtue and Villainy""""10. Becoming-Mouse, Becoming-Man: The Sideways Growth of Princess Mouseskin""; ""11. Playing with Fire: Transgression as Truth in Grimms Frau Trude""; ""Beyond the Grimm's ""



""12. Destroying Patriarchy to Save It: Safdar Tawakkol's Afghan Boxwoman""