At Home in the Realm of Enchantment: The Queer Enticements of the Grimms' “Frau Holle”

At Home in the Realm of Enchantment: The Queer Enticements of the Grimms' “Frau Holle”

[...]we admit happily our tendencies toward what Bonnie Zimmerman calls the "willful appropriations" of "perverse reading," a mode of lesbian engagement with literature (139). If the archive-vaulted revenants of women's resistance are difficult to track, it seems no amount o...

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Published in:Marvels & tales Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 42 - 63
Main Author: Turner, Kay
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Detroit Wayne State University Press 01-01-2015
Subjects:
Communication
Fairy tales
Feminism
Folktales
Gays & lesbians
Housing
Interpreters
Kinship
Lesbianism
LGBT
Queer studies
Queer theory
Reading
Temporality
Women
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Summary:[...]we admit happily our tendencies toward what Bonnie Zimmerman calls the "willful appropriations" of "perverse reading," a mode of lesbian engagement with literature (139). If the archive-vaulted revenants of women's resistance are difficult to track, it seems no amount of attention given at the library housing the past 300 years of the fairy tale's rise will open that history's door to pertinent contexts of queer lives engaging the fairy tale as tellers, listeners, readers, writers, or interpreters.
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ISSN:1521-4281
1536-1802
DOI:10.13110/marvelstales.29.1.0042