Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century by Bacchilega, Cristina
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century by Bacchilega, Cristina

Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century

Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene...
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Author: Cristina Bacchilega
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Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century by Bacchilega, Cristina

Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century

$111.61
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century by Bacchilega, Cristina

Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century

$111.61
Author: Cristina Bacchilega
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene in a range of ways to challenge the popular perception of fairy tales as narratives offering heteronormative happy endings that support status-quo values. The materials collected in Inviting Interruptions address the many ways intersectional issues play out in terms of identity markers, such as race, ethnicity, class, and disability, and the forces that affect identity, such as non-normative sexualities, addiction, abuses of power, and forms of internalized self-hatred caused by any number of external pressures. But we also find celebration, whimsy, and beauty in these same texts-qualities intended to extend readers' enjoyment of and pleasure in the genre.


Edited by Cristina Bacchilega and Jennifer Orme, the book is organized in two sections. "Inviting Interruptions" considers the invitation as an offer that must be accepted in order to participate, whether for good or ill. This section includes Emma Donoghue's literary retelling of "Hansel and Gretel," stills from David Kaplan's short Little Red Riding Hood film, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada's story about stories rooted in Hawaiian tradition and land, and Shary Boyle, Shaun Tan, and Dan Taulapapa McMullin's interruptions of mainstream images of beauty-webs, commerce, and Natives. "Interrupting Invitations" contemplates the interruption as a survival mechanism to end a problem that has already been going on too long. This section includes reflections on migration and sexuality by Diriye Osman, Sofia Samatar, and Nalo Hopkinson; and invitations to rethink human and non-human relations in works by Anne Kamiya, Rosario Ferr?, Veronica Schanoes, and Susanna Clark.


Each text in the book is accompanied by an editors' note, which offers questions, critical resources, and other links for expanding the appreciation and resonance of the text. As we make our way deeper into the twenty-first century, wonder tales-and their critical analyses-will continue to interest and enchant general audiences, students, and scholars.



Author: Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 02/23/2021
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780814347003


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2021

About the Author

Jennifer Orme is a narrative designer, writer, professor, and editor in Toronto, Canada. In addition to her fictional work as the former Fabulist for The Mysterious Package Company, and the creator of the world of The Boundless Library, she has published in New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales.

Cristina Bacchilega is professor of English at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, where she teaches fairy tales and their adaptations, folklore and literature, and cultural studies. With Marie Alohalani Brown, she co-edited the Penguin Book of Mermaids, and with Anne Duggan, she co-edits Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies.
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