Participo desde o primeiro ano do Festival Internacional Histórias para cambiar el mundo. Acho essa ação incrível e acredito de verdade no poder transformador das palavras. Cada ano procurei desenvolver uma ação diferente e todas elas me encheram de alegria. Esse ano, no entanto, estou praticamente sem voz. Lá se vão vinte dias que minha voz está brincando de esconde esconde. Mas não queria deixar essa lacuna. Narrar é preciso, mesmo quando a voz falha. Assim sendo, decidi partilhar minha narrativa virtualmente. Dentre as histórias, escolhi esse pequeno e lindo conto do Eduardo Galeno, que tão bem fala de nós, narradores orais.
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta Storytellers. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta Storytellers. Mostrar todas las entradas
COSTA RICA: Xavier Sánchez Aguilar in the 7th "Stories to Change the World" International Storytelling Festival - 2017
SPAIN: Cristina Kolumelah in the 7th "Stories to Change the World" International Storytelling Festival - 2017
Queridos contadores compañeras .
Os envío fotos de la contada en Avilés en la SALA INFANTIL de la biblioteca asturiana de LA CARRIONA, el 21 de Junio por CRISTINA KOLUMELAH.
CUENTOS DE AQUÍ Y DE ALLÁ PARA CAMBIAR EL MUNDO.
Un abrazo a todos los compañeros y feliz solsticio
SPAIN: Ana Belén Delgado in the 7th "Stories to Change the World" International Storytelling Festival - 2017
La experiencia de contar cuentos en el hospital no salió como esperaba, porque había muy pocos niños ingresados, de lo cual me alegro, y los que estaban en las habitaciones no pudieron asistir al aula por diferentes motivos, todos médicos.
Pero ya que estaba todo preparado, Ana, persona con la que me he coordinado estos días, me propuso contarles algún cuento a un niño y una niña que estaban en UVI.
Así que...¡Allá que fui! Era algo nuevo para mí y la verdad es que no sabía muy bien como hacerlo. Pero eso no me echó para atrás y los dos niños con nombre de personajes de cuento pudieron disfrutar de "La pequeña oruga glotona", "El cocodrilo que no sabía nadar" y "El pollo Pepe".
Fue una bonita experiencia con la que los niños, sus madres, los enfermeros y yo disfrutamos.
Os dejo un par de fotos del momento de los cuentos.
Espero poder ir algún otro día, ya que me quedé con ganas de contar más cuentos y de poder compartir con ellos unas risas.
Muchas gracias al hospital Virgen de la Salud, de Toledo y a la Red Internacional de cuentacuentos.
USA: Miriam Broderman in 7th International Festival "Stories to Change the World" 2017, June 21st
Una fantástica mañana de cuentos
Como acertadamente expresaran los Coordinadores generales de la Red Internacional de Cuentacuentos Beatriz Montero y Enrique Páez: “Juntos podemos hacer un mundo mejor a través de los cuentos” este 20 de junio me sumé a la séptima jornada internacional de “Historias para cambiar el mundo” sabia y humana forma de contar con grandes y chicos. En esta ocasión Patricia Boyd, Directora del “Centro de aprendizaje Happy Times Daycare & Learning Center LLC.” de manera amable y entusiasta me abrió las puertas de tan inigualable institución, sita en 5901 NW 176 ST Unit 7 & 8 Hialeah, Florida 33015.
Contar con el público más pequeño es un reto y también una profunda satisfacción. Son los más exigentes y también los más sinceros. Esta mañana he disfrutado al máximo de las sonrisas, ocurrencias, respuestas inesperadas y sobre todo de la extraordinaria gestualidad de estos pequeños gigantes que junto conmigo, dieron vida a gatos, vacas, osos, gallos y duendes.
Agradezco también a todas las teacher que se insertaron en el sortilegio de la palabra y como infantes disfrutaron de los cuentos y juegos, y de manera especial quiero hacer alusión a la educadora Ailín Rubalcaba de la cual tuve un gran apoyo y gracias a ella puedo ofrecer este testimonio fotográfico.
Gracias a todos.
Miriam Broderman
MÉXICO: Lorna Rocío Contreras González participates in 7th International Festival "Stories to Change the World" 2017, June 21st
MÉXICO.- Lorna Rocío Contreras González, creadora y fundadora del proyecto Cuentos para Corazones de Colores, se une con entusiasmo a esta gran celebración en el marco del 7º. Festival Internacional “Historias para Cambiar al Mundo” el día 21 de junio del 2017. Dirigido a público infantil con sus padres, en dos horarios: de las 11:30 a 12:30 y 13:00 a 13:30 horas. Organizado por la Red Internacional de Cuentacuentos (RIC).
En dos sedes:
1.- JARDÍN DE NIÑOS ISAÍAS MORONES ESCAMILLA.
Calle Vicente Guerrero s/n Barrio Chapultepec, San Andrés Ahuayucan,
Xochimilco, Ciudad de México.
Directora Profesora Maribel Urrutia Aguilar y la Profesora Norma Arely Vera Campos
A las 11:00 horas.
2.- CASA DE CULTURA SAN ANDRÉS AHUAYUCAN.
La Administradora es Lic. Alejandra Cancino
Calle Benito Juárez s/n, Barrio Chapultepec
San Andrés Ahuayucan, Xochimilco
Ciudad de México
Calle Benito Juárez s/n, Barrio Chapultepec
San Andrés Ahuayucan, Xochimilco
Ciudad de México
A las 13:00 horas.
¡Te esperamos!
*ENTRADA GRATUITA*
BRASIL: Cristina Serrano participates in 7th International Festival "Stories to Change the World" 2017, June 21st
BRASIL: Cristina Serrano en el 7º Festival Internacional "Historias para cambiar el mundo", 21 de junio de 2017
A Contadora de Histórias Cristina Serrano participa da 7ª Edição Festival Histórias para Mudar o Mundo.
Na Serra do Papagaio, em Aiuruoca, na BR-267, Km 259 , no Sul do Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil, com sessões na parte da manhã e da tarde, de 9h às 17h, do dia 21 de junho de 2017, levando histórias e músicas da Serra da Mantiqueira e do Rio Grande.
7ª Edição Festival Histórias para Mudar o Mundo.
Na Serra do Papagaio, em Aiuruoca, na BR-267, Km 259 , no Sul do Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil, com sessões na parte da manhã e da tarde, de 9h às 17h, do dia 21 de junho de 2017, levando histórias e músicas da Serra da Mantiqueira e do Rio Grande.
7ª Edição Festival Histórias para Mudar o Mundo.
EL SALVADOR: Cuenterete Teatro participates in 7th International Festival "Stories to Change the World" 2017, June 21st
Estimados colegas
Cuenterete Teatro inicio este dìa martes 24 de junio, "Las Historias para cambiar el mundo"
Narrando cuentos en la escuela Josè Federico Vides del departamento de Santa Ana en El Salvador y el Sabado 24 de Junio contaremos cuentos en la Escuela Nacional de Danza Morena Celarie del departamento de San Salvador El Salvador.
En Esta ocaciòn narran cuentos Francisco Ramos, Alejandro Anaya y Emmanuel Merino.
Les adjunto fotografìas y mañana les enviare el link de un video resumen corto de la jornada primera.
U/n abrazo lleno de historias.
Cuenterete Teatro inicio este dìa martes 24 de junio, "Las Historias para cambiar el mundo"
Narrando cuentos en la escuela Josè Federico Vides del departamento de Santa Ana en El Salvador y el Sabado 24 de Junio contaremos cuentos en la Escuela Nacional de Danza Morena Celarie del departamento de San Salvador El Salvador.
En Esta ocaciòn narran cuentos Francisco Ramos, Alejandro Anaya y Emmanuel Merino.
Les adjunto fotografìas y mañana les enviare el link de un video resumen corto de la jornada primera.
U/n abrazo lleno de historias.
Un abrazo
Francisco Ramos
Cuenterte Teatro
Francisco Ramos
Cuenterte Teatro
SPAIN: Moms Storytellers participate in 7th International Festival "Stories to Change the World" 2017, June 21st
Participaremos por segundo año consecutivo en el Festival de Historias para cambiar el mundo.
¿Quién contará cuentos? Las MamisCuentacuentos.
Cuento: Vamos a cazar un oso
Lugar: CEIP La Dehesilla, en Sanlúcar de Barrameda, provincia de Cádiz, en España.
Hora: de 9 a 14h.
Gracias por organizar iniciativas así, que fomentan y animan a leer. Salud.
SPAIN: Beatriz Montero participates in 7th International Festival "Stories to Change the World" 2017, June 21st
Participo en el 7º Festival Historias para Cambiar el Mundo con el cuento "El animal más fuerte del mundo"Beatriz Montero
"Stories to Change the World" June 21, 2013.
Last year, 2012, over 350 storytellers from 30 countries on five continents participated, nearly 15% more than in the first celebration held in 2011. You can tell in schools, theaters, cultural centers, street corners, universities, buses, oil platforms, ships, dormitories, train stations, or pubs. Any site is suitable for storytelling. Any time is a proper time for fighting against inequality, injustice, racism and ignorance. That is the meaning, the message and the objective of "Stories to Change the World". And that's what we are counting on you for.
When you know the venue, the city, the country, the people who are telling stories, the time and date (even better if it's June 21), send us the information at red@cuentacuentos.eu and we will post it on the blog www.historiasparacambiarelmundo.blogspot.com . If you also send us a photo, even better. We´ll post it on the blog too.
Together we can make a better world by telling stories. No one can stop us trying. We just have to get the word engine running. Get a hug full of tales and stories,
International Storytelling Network (RIC) Red Internacional de Cuentacuentos
www.cuentacuentos.eu
historiasparacambiarelmundo.blogspot.com
InternationalStorytellingNetwork
RedCuentacuento
RedCuentacuentos
The Snake and the Firefly, folktale
There was once a firefly who liked to fly among the trees in a jungle.
One day, a snake came along and looked at the firefly flying around, working, eating, and shining with its great green light.
The snake didn’t have much to do, though, so he decided to chase the firefly around to eat him…
First just keeping a watchful eye, then slithering softly along and lastly chasing rapidly around.
The firefly flew, and flew, and flew as fast as those little wings could take him, but eventually grew tired and fell to the ground, where the snake was awaiting.
Before the snake could eat him, he pleaded to ask a few questions, to which the snake replied: “Hmm… I don’t usually give this privilege to my food, but go ahead”.
The firefly then asked “Am I in your food chain?”, and the snake answered “No…”.
“Are you hungry?” mumbled the defenceless little firefly. “Not really, no” said the vicious snake.
“Then why do you want to eat me?” whispered the firefly, to which the snake stated clearly
“Because I just can’t stand to see you shine!”
---
Keep in mind that from time to time we find snakes.
One day, a snake came along and looked at the firefly flying around, working, eating, and shining with its great green light.
The snake didn’t have much to do, though, so he decided to chase the firefly around to eat him…
First just keeping a watchful eye, then slithering softly along and lastly chasing rapidly around.
The firefly flew, and flew, and flew as fast as those little wings could take him, but eventually grew tired and fell to the ground, where the snake was awaiting.
Before the snake could eat him, he pleaded to ask a few questions, to which the snake replied: “Hmm… I don’t usually give this privilege to my food, but go ahead”.
The firefly then asked “Am I in your food chain?”, and the snake answered “No…”.
“Are you hungry?” mumbled the defenceless little firefly. “Not really, no” said the vicious snake.
“Then why do you want to eat me?” whispered the firefly, to which the snake stated clearly
“Because I just can’t stand to see you shine!”
Keep in mind that from time to time we find snakes.
5th Annual Trickster Tales: A Night of Storytelling, (WA, USA)
5th Annual Trickster Tales: A Night of Storytelling
April Fool’s Day (Monday, April 1) – 6:30-9:30pm
Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
2333 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend, WA 98368
$12-25 Suggested Donation for this Boiler Room Benefit
They engage in one of the oldest acts known to humans, that of the oral tradition, where they sit together as a community and listen to the old myths, the old stories. As a benefit for the Boiler Room, and in honor of this day of trickery, they present the ever-popular annual event Trickster Tales: A Night of Storytelling, now in it’s fifth year. Stories and wisdom of those masters of creative chaos: Coyote, Raven, Mink and more.
We once again feature master storytellers: Johnny Moses from the Tulalip Tribe, renowned mythologist Daniel Deardorff and Jamestown S’Klallam elder Elaine Grinnell & guests.
This benefit event will be held in Port Townsend, WA at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on April 1, 6:30pm. They are offering a sliding scale of $12-25 and no one will be turned away. For more info clic here:
Words to Honor Diane Wolkstein's Memory (USA)
Diane Wolkstein´s family announce the passing of Diane Wolkstein and Memorial service this Sunday February 3.
Diane Wolkstein, world-renowned storyteller and author of 23 books, died following emergency heart surgery on January 31st while on a trip to Taiwan. A public memorial service will be held this Sunday, February 3rd, at 3PM at the New York Insight Meditation Center, located at 28 West 27th Street, 10th floor (b/w 5th and 6th Avenue). (A second memorial, celebrating Diane's life, is planned for the summer/fall).
A message from Diane's daughter, Rachel:
"It is with profound sadness that I tell you that my mother, Diane Wolkstein, passed away very early this morning in Taiwan. She had had emergency heart surgery but the procedure was not sufficient to allow her heart to work on its own. She was not conscious and she was not alone. She had several of her close friends from Taiwan there with her and at the very end she had a rabbi say kaddish and Buddhist prayers were said as well. Her death is a terrible shock. Her life overflowed with joy, intensity, friendship, love and spirit. Her love for each of us and the stories she told live inside of us forever." —Rachel Zucker
Obituary:
Diane Wolkstein, world-renowned storyteller, folklorist, mythologist and author of many books for children and adults, died following emergency heart surgery on January 31 while on a trip to Taiwan working on her most recent project, the Chinese epic story of Monkey King or Journey to the West.
Diane was the author of 23 books of folklore and performed to sold-out crowds throughout the world. What set Diane apart as a storyteller are her performing gifts as well as the depth of knowledge and research she devoted to the stories she told. Diane’s collection, The Magic Orange Tree, was the result of numerous visits to Haiti during which Diane recorded stories told on porches and in late-night gatherings. In Australia, Diane met Aboriginal storytellers who granted her special permission to tell their stories. Wolkstein spent years working with Samuel Noah Kramer, one of the world’s pre-eminent archeologists, to create the definitive telling of the great Sumerian epic, Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, which she performed at the United Nations and the British Museum. Because of Diane’s work, Inanna has become an influential text in feminist studies and studies of ancient history.
Diane’s belief in story and its potential to transform people’s lives propelled her to the forefront of the modern storytelling movement as early as 1967, when she joined the New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreation and started a year–round storytelling program for the city’s parks and schools. Diane initiated America’s first graduate storytelling program at Bank Street College of Education and was a regular visiting teacher of mythology at New York University for 18 years. She is a founding member of both America’s National Storytelling Conference and the Storytelling Center of New York City, and has held hundreds of workshops on the art of storytelling throughout her long career. For thirteen years Diane’s radio show, Stories from Many Lands, was broadcast on WNYC–AM/FM bi–weekly, and in 2007 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg named June 22nd of that year “Diane Wolkstein Day” in honor of Diane’s 40 years of storytelling for the people of New York City.
New York City’s children gathered at the foot of the statue of Hans Christian Andersen in Central Park to hear Diane tell stories every Saturday for more than forty summers. The culminating event of the storytelling season was her telling of Elsie Piddock Skips in her Sleep and the skip rope competition that followed.
Diane is survived by her daughter, Rachel Zucker, her son-in-law Josh Goren, her three grandsons Moses Goren, Abram Goren and Judah Goren, her mother Ruth Wolkstein, her brothers Martin Wolkstein and Gary Wolkstein, her sister-in-law Elizabeth Borsodi, nieces and nephews and a grandniece. She also leaves behind many dearly loved friends in New York and around the world.
In lieu of flowers please consider making a donation in Diane’s name to Partners in Health, or Tzu Chi Foundation.
A public memorial service will be held this Sunday, February 3rd, at 3PM at the New York Insight Meditation Center, located at 28 West 27th Street, 10th floor (b/w 5th and 6th Avenue). (A second memorial, celebrating Diane's life is being planned for the summer/fall).
Chennai Storytelling Festival (Chennai, India)
Presenting the first ever Chennai Storytelling Festival. An opportunity for learning about storytelling as a powerful tool used in various fields like education, learning and development, business, therapy and counseling and more.
Guest performer from Singapore (Kamini Ramachandran), and Chennai's own storytellers (Eric Miller, Geeta Ramanujam, Sudha Umashankar, Mohana Priya, Sandhya Ruban- Eloquens, Ameen Harque, Gaurav Arora, Sowmya Srivasan, Aparna Athreya, Anita Ratnam, Mrinalini Sekar, Magdalene Jeyarathena, and Uma Balu). Plenty of workshops.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Chennai Max Mueller Bhavan No.4 5th Street, Rutland Gate Chennai 600 006, Tamil Nadu, India
Date: February 1-3, 2013.
Guest performer from Singapore (Kamini Ramachandran), and Chennai's own storytellers (Eric Miller, Geeta Ramanujam, Sudha Umashankar, Mohana Priya, Sandhya Ruban- Eloquens, Ameen Harque, Gaurav Arora, Sowmya Srivasan, Aparna Athreya, Anita Ratnam, Mrinalini Sekar, Magdalene Jeyarathena, and Uma Balu). Plenty of workshops.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Chennai Max Mueller Bhavan No.4 5th Street, Rutland Gate Chennai 600 006, Tamil Nadu, India
Date: February 1-3, 2013.
 |
| Clic the image |
Congratulations for the first Chenai Storytelling Festival!
Happy New Year 2013
“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.” –Dalai Lama
Happy 2013
Feliz 2013
Feliz 2013
The Storyteller Mo Yan Was Named the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012
" I am a storyteller.
Telling stories earned me the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Many interesting things have happened to me in the wake of winning the prize, and they have convinced me that truth and justice are alive and well.
So I will continue telling my stories in the days to come" by Mo Yanh.
Here are a few paragraphs where Mo Yah talks about the storytellers from his speech at the Nobel prize ceremony. You can read ithe full speech on the official website of the Nobel Prize
© THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2012
Nobel Lecture
7 December, 2012
By Mo YanStorytellers
"...A storyteller once came to the marketplace, and I sneaked off to listen to him. She was unhappy with me for forgetting my chores. But that night, while she was stitching padded clothes for us under the weak light of a kerosene lamp, I couldn’t keep from retelling stories I’d heard that day. She listened impatiently at first, since in her eyes professional storytellers were smooth-talking men in a dubious profession. Nothing good ever came out of their mouths. But slowly she was dragged into my retold stories, and from that day on, she never gave me chores on market day, unspoken permission to go to the marketplace and listen to new stories. As repayment for Mother’s kindness and a way to demonstrate my memory, I’d retell the stories for her in vivid detail.
It did not take long to find retelling someone else’s stories unsatisfying, so I began embellishing my narration. I’d say things I knew would please Mother, even changed the ending once in a while. And she wasn’t the only member of my audience, which later included my older sisters, my aunts, even my maternal grandmother. Sometimes, after my mother had listened to one of my stories, she’d ask in a care-laden voice, almost as if to herself: “What will you be like when you grow up, son? Might you wind up prattling for a living one day?”
A popular saying goes “It is easier to change the course of a river than a person’s nature.” Despite my parents’ tireless guidance, my natural desire to talk never went away, and that is what makes my name – Mo Yan, or “don’t speak” – an ironic expression of self-mockery.
...
After leaving school, I was thrown uncomfortably into the world of adults, where I embarked on the long journey of learning through listening. Two hundred years ago, one of the great storytellers of all time – Pu Songling – lived near where I grew up, and where many people, me included, carried on the tradition he had perfected. Wherever I happened to be – working the fields with the collective, in production team cowsheds or stables, on my grandparents’ heatedkang, even on oxcarts bouncing and swaying down the road, my ears filled with tales of the supernatural, historical romances, and strange and captivating stories, all tied to the natural environment and clan histories, and all of which created a powerful reality in my mind.
...
... I must say that in the course of creating my literary domain, Northeast Gaomi Township, I was greatly inspired by the American novelistWilliam Faulkner and the Columbian Gabriel García Márquez. ...
What I should do was simplicity itself: Write my own stories in my own way. My way was that of the marketplace storyteller, with which I was so familiar, the way my grandfather and my grandmother and other village old-timers told stories. In all candor, I never gave a thought to audience when I was telling my stories; perhaps my audience was made up of people like my mother, and perhaps it was only me.
...
...
A person can experience only so much, and once you have exhausted your own stories, you must tell the stories of others. And so, out of the depths of my memories, like conscripted soldiers, rose stories of family members, of fellow villagers, and of long-dead ancestors I learned of from the mouths of old-timers. They waited expectantly for me to tell their stories. My grandfather and grandmother, my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, my aunts and uncles, my wife and my daughter have all appeared in my stories. Even unrelated residents of Northeast Gaomi Township have made cameo appearances. Of course they have undergone literary modification to transform them into larger-than-life fictional characters...."
"Even though I would prefer to say nothing, since it is something I must do on this occasion, let me just say this:
I am a storyteller, so I am going to tell you some stories...."
And Mo Yan told one last story:
"Bear with me, please, for one last story, one my grandfather told me many years ago: A group of eight out-of-town bricklayers took refuge from a storm in a rundown temple. Thunder rumbled outside, sending fireballs their way. They even heard what sounded like dragon shrieks. The men were terrified, their faces ashen. “Among the eight of us,” one of them said, “is someone who must have offended the heavens with a terrible deed. The guilty person ought to volunteer to step outside to accept his punishment and spare the innocent from suffering. Naturally, there were no volunteers. So one of the others came up with a proposal: Since no one is willing to go outside, let’s all fling our straw hats toward the door. Whoever’s hat flies out through the temple door is the guilty party, and we’ll ask him to go out and accept his punishment.” So they flung their hats toward the door. Seven hats were blown back inside; one went out the door. They pressured the eighth man to go out and accept his punishment, and when he balked, they picked him up and flung him out the door. I’ll bet you all know how the story ends: They had no sooner flung him out the door than the temple collapsed around them.
I am a storyteller.
Telling stories earned me the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Many interesting things have happened to me in the wake of winning the prize, and they have convinced me that truth and justice are alive and well.
So I will continue telling my stories in the days to come.
Thank you all".
Translated by Howard Goldblatt
Children's Literature Festival 2012 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Children's Literature Festival 2012 "Fantasia Membaca" begins next Thursday, November 1. It will take place at the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur). It is the most important Festival related to Children's Literature in Malaysia. This Festival presents local and foreign speakers who are actively involved with children’s literature. The international guests came from Japan, Iran, Spain and Thailand.
Beatriz Montero will participate as an international storyteller. She will tell stories in English at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Malaya on Friday, November 2 (16 to 17h).
Enrique Paez will give a plenary lecture about "Resources on Creative Writing" for teachers and writers in the Lecture Hall B (Dewan Kuliah B) also in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, on November 3.
The activities are designed for teachers, writers, storytellers, illustrators, librarians, children, and anyone interested in Children's Literature. There will be different activities such lectures, storytelling, Kamishibai workshops, musical theater, painting workshops, author meetings, visits to Petronas, creative writing contest, puppets and much more.
Beatriz Montero will participate as an international storyteller. She will tell stories in English at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Malaya on Friday, November 2 (16 to 17h).
Enrique Paez will give a plenary lecture about "Resources on Creative Writing" for teachers and writers in the Lecture Hall B (Dewan Kuliah B) also in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, on November 3.
The activities are designed for teachers, writers, storytellers, illustrators, librarians, children, and anyone interested in Children's Literature. There will be different activities such lectures, storytelling, Kamishibai workshops, musical theater, painting workshops, author meetings, visits to Petronas, creative writing contest, puppets and much more.
Organised jointly by the Department of Media Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Malaysia Board on Books for Young People (MBBY) and Perbadanan Kota Buku Malaysia,
For more information click here.
For more information click here.
Transgressive Tales - Queering the Grimms
The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years, the brothers, especially Wilhelm, revised, edited, sanitized, and bowdlerized the tales, publishing the seventh and final edition in 1857 with many of the sexual implications removed. However, the contributors in Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms demonstrate that the Grimms and other collectors paid less attention to ridding the tales of non-heterosexual implications and that, in fact, the Grimms’ tales are rich with queer possibilities.
Editors Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill introduce the volume with an overview of the tales’ literary and interpretive history, surveying their queerness in terms of not just sex, gender and sexuality, but also issues of marginalization, oddity, and not fitting into society. In three thematic sections, contributors then consider a range of tales and their queer themes. In Faux Femininities, essays explore female characters, and their relationships and feminine representation in the tales. Contributors to Revising Rewritings consider queer elements in rewritings of the Grimms’ tales, including Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, Jeanette Winterson’s Twelve Dancing Princesses, and contemporary reinterpretations of both “Snow White” and “Snow White and Rose Red.” Contributors in the final section, Queering the Tales, consider queer elements in some of the Grimms’ original tales and explore intriguing issues of gender, biology, patriarchy, and transgression.
With the variety of unique perspectives in Transgressive Tales, readers will find new appreciation for the lasting power of the fairy-tale genre. Scholars of fairy-tale studies and gender and sexuality studies will enjoy this thought-provoking volume.
Contributors: Emilie Anderson-Grégoire, Cristina Bacchilega, Anita Best, Joy Brooke Fairfield, Andrew J. Friedenthal, Kevin Goldstein, Pauline Greenhill, Bettina Hutschek, Jeana Jorgensen, Kimberly J. Lau, Elliot Gordon Mercer, Margaret A. Mills, Jennifer Orme, Catherine Tosenberger, Kay Turner, Margaret R. Yocom
Published by Wayne State University Press<
Over 1000 members in International Storytelling Network
Congratulations to you all!
Suscribirse a:
Entradas (Atom)