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Glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a ball, a prince, an evil
stepfamily, and a poor girl known for sitting amongst the ashes:
incarnations of the Cinderella fairy tale have resonated throughout
the ages. Hidden between the lines of this fairy tale exists a
history of fantasy about agency, power, and empowerment. This book
examines twenty-first-century "Cinderella" adaptations that
envision the classic tale in the twenty-first century through the
lens of wokenesss by shifting rhetorical implications and
self-reflexively granting different possibilities for protagonists.
The contributors argue that the Cinderella archetype expands past
traditional takes on the passive princess. From Sex and the City to
Game of Thrones, from cyborg Cinderellas to Inglorious Basterds,
contributors explore gender-bending and feminist adaptations,
explorations of race and the body, and post-human and post-truth
rewritings. The collection posits that contemporary "Cinderella"
adaptations create a substantive cultural product that both inform
and reflect a contemporary social zeitgeist.
Environmental Postcolonialism: A Literary Response is an academic
investigation of the environmental repercussions of colonial
destruction. This volume addresses the complex interplay between
postcolonialism and environmental discourse through literature
produced in the ex-colonies. This literature is read from the
standpoint of ex-colonies within their human and non-human context.
The primary objective of this volume is to scrutinize environmental
concerns in the light of postcolonial theory, and so it examines
works of art from the twin perspective of eco-criticism and
postcolonialism which illuminates and underscores how colonizers
destroyed and interfered with both nature and culture. Through
discussing the intersecting layers of ecocriticism and postcolonial
criticism, the volume gestures to new directions and generates a
hopeful vision of a decolonized world.
Glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a ball, a prince, an evil
stepfamily, and a poor girl known for sitting amongst the ashes:
incarnations of the "Cinderella" fairy tale have resonated
throughout the ages. Hidden between the lines of this fairy tale
exists a history of fantasy about agency, power, and empowerment.
This book examines twenty-first-century "Cinderella" adaptations
that envision the classic tale in the twenty-first century through
the lens of wokenesss by shifting rhetorical implications and
self-reflexively granting different possibilities for protagonists.
The contributors argue that the "Cinderella" archetype expands past
traditional takes on the passive princess. From Sex and the City to
Game of Thrones, from cyborg "Cinderellas" to Inglorious Basterds,
contributors explore gender-bending and feminist adaptations,
explorations of race and the body, and post-human and post-truth
rewritings. The collection posits that contemporary "Cinderella"
adaptations create a substantive cultural product that both inform
and reflect a contemporary social zeitgeist.
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