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T1 From the classic to the subversive : a feminist  approach to Disney’s adaptations of snow white and the seven dwarfs, sleeping beauty  and beauty and the beast, Angela Carter’s the  bloody chamber and other stories and Emma  Donoghue’s kissing the witch : old tales in new skins
A1 Fernández García, Alba
K1 Fairy tales
K1 Feminism
K1 Traditional values
K1 Female objectification
K1 Female rivalry
K1 Cuentos de hadas
K1 Feminismo
K1 Cosificación
K1 Pasividad
K1 Rivalidad
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Filología
K1 Philology
AB Starting from the stories told from words of mouth by old female storytellers, until the blossoming of imprinted tales back in the 18th and 19th centuries, the genre of fairy tales has been highly influenced by different historical periods and social conventions. Canonical writers such as Charles Perrault or the Grimm Brothers sought to create original stories and reformulate previous tales to impose their own ideology about politics or gender. That rewriting strategy characterises the genre and it opens the path for its continuous reassessment. For that, along the 20th century, part of the Postmodern and feminist movements focus on revising the form and content of fairy tales. Following the postmodern key points about reviewing and revisiting all previous knowledge and the feminist approach to gender and female questions, Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) and Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (1997) aim at reshaping the image of the female self and challenging patriarchal values embedded in classic tales. Meanwhile, fairy tales witnessed another radical renewal: in 1937, Walt Disney released its first animated fairy tale film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which laid the first stone for the prestigious name it has today. Other adaptations such as Sleeping Beauty (1945) or Beauty and the Beast (1991) are some of Disney’s landmarks in the memory of many children and young adults. However, does Disney reconsider any ideology or traditional value in these adaptations as Carter and Donoghue do in their collections? Bearing this question in mind and following feminist postulates, the present dissertation delves into nine different works divided in three groups: Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast (1991); Angela Carter’s “The Snow Child”, “The Lady of the House of Love” and “The Tiger’s Bride”; and Emma Donoghue’s “The Tale of the Apple”, “The Tale of the Needle” and “The Tale of the Rose”. It intends to compare and analyse the representation of traditional values and social assumptions regarding women, female objectification, passivity and female rivalry. Such analysis will allow to underscore Carter and Donoghue’s feminist subversion in their collections and to expose Disney’s patriarchal and old-fashioned values within their productions and how this has affected their main audiences: children.
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50138
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50138
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 19-abr-2024