Fairy Tales of Appalachia

Herausgeber: Sivinski, Stacy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This new collection of fairy tales, drawn from the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University and the special collections at Berea College, celebrates a lively current of storytelling going back centuries in Appalachia. The volume's editor, Stacy Sivinski, has written an introduction contextualizing the regional oral tradition that produced these adaptations and retellings of well-known tales. She explains what makes the stories distinctively Appalachian, and, indeed, readers will find traces of "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Snow White," all with a distinctly Appalachian flavor. The brave and clever women characters, so strong in Sivinski's selection, are given additional emphasis in specially commissioned photographs by local artist Jamie Sivinski. In contrast to a previous era of skeptical folklore criticism, this volume encourages readers to enter the fairy tale with a sense of wonder that is not less contemporary for being fantastic"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Tennessee Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781621907626
• ISBN-10: 1621907627
• Artikelnr.: 64298380

Autorenporträt

STACY SIVINSKI received her doctorate in English from the University of Notre Dame. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Modernist Periodical Studies, Journal of Gender Studies, and in the collection Consumption and the Literary Cookbook.