Fairy Tales with a Black Consciousness
Subtitle: Essays on Adaptations of Familiar Stories
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780786471294
Subjects: Fairy tales, history and criticism; African americans, folklore
Description: "The essays discuss Black cultural retellings of traditional, European fairy tales. The tales are rich and diverse in perspective, illuminating stories such as Aesop's fables, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Ananse. Stories from Black perspectives adhere to the dictates of traditional literary conventions while steeped in literary traditions that can be traced back to Africa or the diaspora"--