Straightening Agentic Women: The "Willful" Princess in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Picturebooks
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Feminist scholars have criticized the misogyny of folk/fairy tales that recount how "willful" princesses who refuse to marry are reformed or punished. As a result, contemporary authors fairy-tale picturebooks tend alter not incorporate forced marriage theme when engaging with these tales. Yet, trope princess whose will is "straightened" still operative in recent fairy Through multimodal analysis La bella Griselda (Beautiful Griselda, 2010) and De gouden kooi (The Golden Cage,2014), I show reiterate harmful dynamic reforming penalizing "willfully" agentic princess.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Marvels and Tales
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1536-1802', '1521-4281']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mat.2022.0004