| Description |
x, 79 pages ; 19 cm |
| Contents |
Little Red Riding Hood -- The Emperor's New Clothes -- The Three Little Pigs -- Rumpelstiltskin -- The Three Codependent Goats Gruff -- Rapunzel -- Cinderella -- Goldilocks -- Snow White -- Chicken Little -- The Frog Prince -- Jack and the Beanstalk -- The Pied Piper of Hamelin |
| Summary |
Politically Correct Bedtime Stores, then is the fruit of Garner's labors. We'd like to think that future generations of fairy-tale fans will see this as a worthy attempt to develop meaningful literature that is totally free from bias and purged from the influences of a flawed cultural past |
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Once upon a time, in the olden days, heavy-set middle-aged men would congregate in their elitist clubs, sit in over-stuffed leather chairs, smoke air-choking cigars, and pitch story ideas and plots to each other. Problem was, these stories, many of which found their way into the general social consciousness, reflected the way in which these men lived and saw their world: that is, the stories were sexist, discriminatory, unfair, culturally biased, and in general, demeaning to witches, animals, goblins, and fairies everywhere. Finally, after centuries of these abusive tales, which have been handed down - unknowingly - from one male-biased generation to the next, James Finn Garner has taken it upon himself (that's right, yet another man) to enlighten and liberate these classic bedtime stories and retell them in a way that is much more in keeping with the society in which we live today |
| Analysis |
English fiction Short stories |
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United States |
| Notes |
Also published New York: Macmillan, 1994 |
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Subtitle on dust jacket of U.S. pub.: Modern tales for our life & times |
| Subject |
Fairy tales -- Adaptations.
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Humorous stories, American.
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Political correctness -- Humor.
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Political correctness -- Fiction.
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Political correctness.
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Satire, American.
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Fairy tales -- Adaptations.
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Political correctness.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Humor.
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| LC no. |
93011481 |
| ISBN |
002542730X |
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