Fairy-tale Retellings between Art and Pedagogy |
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| Authors: | Vanessa Joosen |
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| Institution: | (1) University of Antwerp, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | In this article, it is shown how authors of fairy-tale retellings have incorporated ideas of feminist literary criticism into a fictional form. As such, these retellings display the tension between the pedagogic and aesthetic aspects of all children s literature. Jane Yolens Sleeping Ugly is chosen as a case study: although it can be argued that the book serves as a mouthpiece for the ideology of the emancipation movement formulated in Marcia Liebermans key text  Some Day My Prince Will Come, it is suggested that Sleeping Ugly teaches children to read against a texts authority and as such undermines its own didactic potential.Vanessa Joosen (1977)
has a Masters degree
in English and German
Literature from the
University of Antwerp,
and an MA in Childrens
Literature from
the University of Surrey
Roehampton. In 2003,
she received an FWO
scholarship to fund her
PhD at the University
of Antwerp. She researches the interaction
between fairy-tale
retellings and criticism
on fairy tales in the
period from 1970 to
2000. Recent publications include Translating Dutch into Dutch
in Signal 100, and an
article on Belgian
childrens books in Peter
Hunts International
Companion to
Childrens Literature. |
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| Keywords: | fairy tales feminism literary theory pedagogy Jane Yolen |
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