Susan Redington Bobby

This work is best suited for those familiar with the works covered, but if you’re strongly interested in the topic a little Googling can help you out. Bobby definitely takes an academic approach, but fairy tales are something familiar to everyone so the concepts can be interesting to a wide audience.

Bobby has collected sixteen essays that explore how classic fairy tales have been retold in the late 20 and early 21 centuries and what they say about the culture of the age. The fairy tale show more roots of “Lost Girls,” “Wicked,” “Princess Academy,” works by female poets, and countless other modern retellings are touched upon. The book approaches issues of gender and sexuality, narrative forms, trauma and dystopia, and culture and politics. show less