Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century
anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that
intervene in a range of ways to challenge the popular perception of
fairy tales as narratives offering heteronormative happy endings
that support status-quo values. The materials collected in Inviting
Interruptions address the many ways intersectional issues play out
in terms of identity markers, such as race, ethnicity, class, and
disability, and the forces that affect identity, such as
non-normative sexualities, addiction, abuses of power, and forms of
internalized self-hatred caused by any number of external
pressures. But we also find celebration, whimsy, and beauty in
these same texts-qualities intended to extend readers' enjoyment of
and pleasure in the genre. Edited by Cristina Bacchilega and
Jennifer Orme, the book is organized in two sections. ""Inviting
Interruptions"" considers the invitation as an offer that must be
accepted in order to participate, whether for good or ill. This
section includes Emma Donoghue's literary retelling of ""Hansel and
Gretel,"" stills from David Kaplan's short Little Red Riding Hood
film, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada's story about stories rooted in Hawaiian
tradition and land, and Shary Boyle, Shaun Tan, and Dan Taulapapa
McMullin's interruptions of mainstream images of beauty-webs,
commerce, and Natives. ""Interrupting Invitations"" contemplates
the interruption as a survival mechanism to end a problem that has
already been going on too long. This section includes reflections
on migration and sexuality by Diriye Osman, Sofia Samatar, and Nalo
Hopkinson; and invitations to rethink human and non-human relations
in works by Anne Kamiya, Rosario Ferr? (R), Veronica Schanoes, and
Susanna Clark. Each text in the book is accompanied by an editors'
note, which offers questions, critical resources, and other links
for expanding the appreciation and resonance of the text. As we
make our way deeper into the twenty-first century, wonder tales-and
their critical analyses-will continue to interest and enchant
general audiences, students, and scholars.
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