The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmarchen
(Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815,
have come to define academic and popular understandings of the
fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years, the brothers,
especially Wilhelm, revised, edited, sanitised, and bowdlerised the
tales, publishing the seventh and final edition in 1857 with many
of the sexual implications removed. However, the contributors in
Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms demonstrate that the
Grimms and other collectors paid less attention to ridding the
tales of non-heterosexual implications and that, in fact, the
Grimms' tales are rich with queer possibilities. Editors Kay Turner
and Pauline Greenhill introduce the volume with an overview of the
tales' literary and interpretive history, surveying their queerness
in terms of not just sex, gender and sexuality, but also issues of
marginalisation, oddity, and not fitting into society. In three
thematic sections, contributors then consider a range of tales and
their queer themes. In Faux Femininities, essays explore female
characters, and their relationships and feminine representation in
the tales. Contributors to Revising Rewritings consider queer
elements in rewritings of the Grimms' tales, including Angela
Carter's The Bloody Chamber, Jeanette Winterson's Twelve Dancing
Princesses, and contemporary reinterpretations of both "Snow White"
and "Snow White and Rose Red." Contributors in the final section,
Queering the Tales, consider queer elements in some of the Grimms'
original tales and explore intriguing issues of gender, biology,
patriarchy, and transgression. With the variety of unique
perspectives in Transgressive Tales, readers will find new
appreciation for the lasting power of the fairy-tale genre.
Scholars of fairy-tale studies and gender and sexuality studies
will enjoy this thought-provoking volume. Contributors: Emilie
Anderson-Gregoire, Cristina Bacchilega, Anita Best, Joy Brooke
Fairfield, Andrew J. Friedenthal, Kevin Goldstein, Pauline
Greenhill, Bettina Hutschek, Jeana Jorgensen, Kimberly J. Lau,
Elliot Gordon Mercer, Margaret A. Mills, Jennifer Orme, Catherine
Tosenberger, Kay Turner, Margaret R. Yocom
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