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A carregar... Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & Times (1995)por James Finn Garner
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Nota de Pamen en 1ª pág.: Dic-2007 En tiempos muy lejanos, para amenizar las reuniones, era costumbre relatarse historias los unos a los otros. Aquellas narraciones orales, muchas de las cuales llegaron a abrirse camino hasta formar parte del dominio público, reflejaban el modo de vida de la sociedad de entonces. Eran cuentos sexistas, discriminatorios, injustos, culturalmente tendenciosos y denigrantes, para las brujas, los animales, los duendes y las hadas de este mundo. Afortunadamente, James Finn Garner ha rescatado aquellas narraciones clásicas (Caperucita Roja, Blancanieves y los siete enanitos, etc...), contándolas de nuevo con un delicioso sentido del humor y de un modo mucho más aceptable para la sociedad de nuestros días, libre por completo de tendenciosidad y limpio de las influencias de un pasado culturalmente sospechoso, a años luz de la perfección que ampara todo lo políticamente correcto. I originally read this collection when I was a kid - it seemed to go hand in hand with the surge in popularity during the 1990s for modernized fairytales, and I read all of them that I could get my hands on - and it still holds up to re-reading it 20-odd years later. Political correctness never goes out of style (or in some cases, mocking political correctness, as this collection sometimes seems to), and it's always nice to see stereotypes turned upon their heads. The bears turning on Goldilocks is one of the most memorable moments from the collection, but I think the story that made me laugh the most is when the Emperor (of invisible clothes fame) manages to turn his kingdom into a clothing-optional society. Take that, dress codes! This was an amusing little book, taking fairy tales and casting them in politically correct terms. I even used one of the stories in one of my English classes. The textbook had a unit of Cinderella story versions, and I added this in to the mix. Reaction was mixed from amusing to offensive. But it did lend itself well enough for some discussion in class back then. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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A humorous retelling of classic bedtime stories, such as Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs, re-written to free them, according to the author, from the influences of "a flawed cultural past." Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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