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Mapping Fairy-Tale Space - Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales (Hardcover)
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Mapping Fairy-Tale Space - Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales (Hardcover)
Series: Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
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Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless
Tales by Christy Williams uses the metaphor of mapping to examine
the narrative strategies employed in popular twenty-first-century
fairy tales. It analyzes the television shows Once Upon a Time and
Secret Garden (a Korean drama), the young-adult novel series The
Lunar Chronicles, the Indexing serial novels, and three
experimental short works of fiction by Kelly Link. Some of these
texts reconfigure well-known fairy tales by combining individual
tales into a single storyworld; others self-referentially turn to
fairy tales for guidance. These contemporary tales have at their
center a crisis about the relevance and sustainability of fairy
tales, and Williams argues that they both engage the fairy tale as
a relevant genre and remake it to create a new kind of fairy tale.
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space is divided into two parts. Part 1 analyzes
fairy-tale texts that collapse multiple distinct fairy tales so
they inhabit the same storyworld, transforming the fairy-tale genre
into a fictional geography of borderless tales. Williams examines
the complex narrative restructuring enabled by this form of mash-up
and expands postmodern arguments to suggest that fairy-tale
pastiche is a critical mode of retelling that celebrates the
fairy-tale genre while it critiques outdated ideological
constructs. Part 2 analyzes the metaphoric use of fairy tales as
maps, or guides, for lived experience. In these texts, characters
use fairy tales both to navigate and to circumvent their own
situations, but the tales are ineffectual maps until the characters
chart different paths and endings for themselves or reject the
tales as maps altogether. Williams focuses on how inventive
narrative and visual storytelling techniques enable metafictional
commentary on fairy tales in the texts themselves. Mapping
Fairy-Tale Space argues that in remaking the fairy-tale genre,
these texts do not so much chart unexplored territory as they
approach existing fairy-tale space from new directions, remapping
the genre as our collective use of fairy tales changes. Students
and scholars of fairy-tale and media studies will welcome this
fresh approach.
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