Keeping those stories alive via retellings, however much you change them, reinforces the cultural importance of those stories. I don't actually know where I stand on this, wondering aloud... any thoughts? In remaking them are we reinforcing a particular cultural paradigm?
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Or are we subverting them and finding new ways to look at the darker parts of european culture and history?
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I think there's always a danger when we (global north writers as one eg of what we I mean) claim fairy tales as holding universal truths. It hides the messy power dynamics of story and imposes one worldview on all. So in retelling fairy tales...how to avoid that claim?
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No answers, only questions! I think I've usually come to this with the view that subversion is power... but I've been wondering lately if that's true?
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I see them as a good starting point to a conversation about sexism/dodginess. My friend once read Little House on the Prairie to her kids by reversing the roles of Ma and Pa...
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I don't know either (and I say this as someone whose first 4 books were retellings) but I know my 8yo is always v. cross about Red Riding Hood's Woodcutter ex machina and always insists on me changing the story so he shows up heroically, then gets eaten before Red saves the day.
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I love that! I grew up on revolting rhymes and I found it incredibly exciting. And, given a universe in which fairy tales are constantly rehashed, those subversions are so important. But I'm trying to imagine if we just...didn't keep telling them!
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I think it’s probably happened before. Fairy tales were extremely savage and have all been modified over the years. I guess we’ll continue to tame them in this way, but still delight in finding out the ‘old, vicious horror’ version later on?pic.twitter.com/sOiAKhAgXa
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Oh, I love the horror. It's just the cultural baggage I could do without!
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When my kids were little my mother sent me a book of "politically corrected" bedtime stories, it was pretty good.
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