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Woke Cinderella
Twenty-First-Century Adaptations
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2020
Summary
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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Edition
1/2020
Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2594-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2595-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
255
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction: Cinderella and Wokeness No access Pages 1 - 12
1 Gen Z Cinder(f)ellas No access
2 “With This Shoe I Thee Wed” No access
3 “Have Courage and Be Kind” No access
4 Two Centuries of Queer Horizon No access
5 Queen of the Ashes No access
6 Forgive Me Mother for I Have Sinned No access
7 Tiana Can’t Stay Woke No access
8 Predestination or the Rediscovery of Agency No access
9 Deaf Cinderella No access
10 Dragons, Magical Objects, and Social Criticism No access
11 Cyborg-erella No access
12 Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France No access
Conclusion: A Postmodern Princess No access Pages 233 - 242
