a b c Pyrhonen, Heta (2010). Bluebeard Gothic: Jane Eyre and Its Progeny. Canada: University of Toronto Press. p.216. ISBN 978-1-4426-4124-2. Cuentos para mujeres que fuimos niñas que nos hacen volver a ser niñas y convertirnos en mujer. Muchos se los he narrado a mi hijo, adaptándolos un poco a su edad sobre todo por el lenguaje, y me pide «otro» y «otro» mientras me pregunta «y qué pasó» «y qué pasó». Una delicia. La excelente edición también ayuda 💕 The chapters are made of headings in which similar stories are grouped. For example, chapter one titled Brave, Bold and Wilful talks about people who are like that. Chapter 11, titled Mothers and Daughters, explores their relationships. Punk band Daisy Chainsaw adapted the story of "The Lady of the House of Love" for their 1992 music video for "Hope Your Dreams Come True" (from the EP of the same name and also later the album Eleventeen). [23] Theatre [ edit ] The stories deal with themes of women's roles in relationships and marriage, their sexuality, coming of age and corruption. Stories such as "The Bloody Chamber" and "The Company of Wolves" explicitly deal with the horrific or corrupting aspects of marriage and/or sex and the balance of power within such relationships. Themes of female identity are explored in the "Beauty and the Beast" stories such as "The Tiger's Bride". In one instance, Beauty, the story's heroine, is described as removing the petals from a white rose as her father gambles her away; this is a seeming representation of the stripping away of the false layers of her personality to find her true identity, an image that finds a mirror in the story's fantastical conclusion.

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A few of the stories are incredibly short, as in a mere few lines, but the preservation of any traditional tale, no matter how brief, is a thing to be celebrated. a b Nate Jones. "Disappointed With the Sexless Into the Woods? Watch The Company of Wolves Instead". Vulture . Retrieved 30 May 2020. The Werewolf" originally appeared in South-West Arts Review. [5] It was revised for this collection. [6] This book is a collection of two shorter volumes, and the first one is strongly biased in favor of European and Western Asian cultures. The only exception is the set of short Inuit stories scattered throughout, which have such a distinct and unique voice that their independent heritage is quite obvious. They are universally quite fixated on anatomy and sexuality, and integrate them with a very cool ecological magic vocabulary. The second half makes a much better effort at global inclusiveness, though it still leaves a lot to be desired as a survey. Many of the best stories in the collection appear here, stories I enjoyed for their kind of unexpected combination of several story ideas that might otherwise be treated separately (the Dinka stories stand out).A girl goes to visit her grandmother, but encounters a werewolf on the way, whose paw she cuts off with a knife. When she reaches her grandmother's house, the paw has turned into a hand with the grandmother's ring on it, and the grandmother is both delirious and missing her hand. This reveals the girl's grandmother as the werewolf, and she is stoned to death. The girl then inherits all of her grandmother's possessions. Pour ceux qui se sentent capable de lire ce livre, je ne peux que vous le recommander. Ces contes de fées recueillis tout autour du monde n’ont de rapport avec les fées que le nom. Oubliez les gentilles versions de Disney, ici les fées sont plutôt des démons, les morales sont parfois (souvent) douteuses, les contes très intriguant voire, même parfois incompréhensibles et, les personnages tous plus bizarres les uns que les autres.

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My intention was not to do 'versions' or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, 'adult' fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories. [2] Ce recueil de contes n’est malheureusement pas traduit en français et le niveau d’anglais est élevé. Angela se apodera de la voz masculina de los cuentos y los arranca de la misoginia misma para retrotraerlos a sus orígenes, a aquellas épocas en las que los contaban «Mamá ganso» o la abuela de nuestra bisabuela mientras hilaba por la noche al lado del fuego. Historias útiles para nosotras en las que somos las protagonistas, a veces virtuosas, a veces malvadas, a veces picaronas, a veces brujas, a veces mujeres-leona, a veces mujeres-mortero. Todo un imaginario que Angela rescata desde los inuit hasta Japón pasando por Inglaterra, Birmania o Sudán. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed most of the stories – they were interesting, funny and weird, so far so good. The Icelandic stories tended to involve the women making themselves appear as men with penises made out of bits of seal, and there were quite a few stories involving jealous step mothers and step fathers, and cannibalism… These are proper folk fairy stories that have been handed down from generation to generation.The Enchanter and Enchantress" - a story that makes an interesting comment about marriage. Really a rather nice tale. I could see the roots of Grimm’s Fairytales and Mother Goose in these stories, and there were several stories based around the Cinderella theme, Rumpelstiltskin and elements of Snow White. My only issue was that there were many stories that I felt like I had read over and over again by the time I had finished the book. Some were written in slang and in dialect, which made them a little harder to get through (although this wasn’t a problem). Has roots in various folktales, most apparently The Snow-child; The Snow, the Crow, and the Blood; and also tales such as Snegurochka and an obscure variant of Snow White. [3] :xvi) The Courtship of Mr Lyon" originally appeared in the British version of Vogue. [5] It was revised for this collection. [6]