also, the cramps are returning.
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bedlamsbardOMG OMG OMG I know what my paper is going to be on! Well, I knew already, but I am so glad I read the article I'd bookmarked for future reading in Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England, because at that point my head exploded and I started scrawling excited little notes at exactly where Ash differs from the traditional European fairy tales and its canon, "Cinderella", and it's in the emphasis on bargains and prices rather than a contest that can be won. Because "Cinderella" and even its cousin "Donkeyskin" are about contests, not bargains, and like Lieberman's article says, "there can only be one winner because there is only one prize", but that's completely untrue in Ash, because there is no prize, the prize has agency, she makes her own decisions whether it comes to Sidhean or Kaisa, and Ash is also missing the deception aspect -- in fact Ash specifically calls out deception omg omg omg! I am not sure whether I can get eight pages out of this, but I have other notes too, and EEE I KNOW WHAT I AM WRITING ABOUT AND MALINDA LO IS DAMNED CLEVER OMG.
(Uh, after the paper is done, I will probably either still think that Ash is fabulous and Malinda Lo is a friggin' genius or I will hate the book and never want to see it again. In case of the former, I will write up a detailed review and recommendation of the novel. For those of you who are going, "What the fuck is Bedlam going on about?", the short version is: Malinda Lo's novel Ash is a retelling of the Cinderella story that gives agency to the young heroine, and also plays with the gender roles by replacing the fairy godmother by a male fairy and the prince with a female love interest. Damn straight, this is a lesbian Cinderella, though I really think categorizing Ash solely with the words "lesbian Cinderella" is not giving it nearly enough credit for what it does with gender and feminine agency and power.)
In non-fairy tale related news, before I unhook my computer from the Internet so I don't get distracted, does anyone have a link to the photo shoot that accompanied this article in the September 19, 2009 issue of Entertainment Weekly?
(Uh, after the paper is done, I will probably either still think that Ash is fabulous and Malinda Lo is a friggin' genius or I will hate the book and never want to see it again. In case of the former, I will write up a detailed review and recommendation of the novel. For those of you who are going, "What the fuck is Bedlam going on about?", the short version is: Malinda Lo's novel Ash is a retelling of the Cinderella story that gives agency to the young heroine, and also plays with the gender roles by replacing the fairy godmother by a male fairy and the prince with a female love interest. Damn straight, this is a lesbian Cinderella, though I really think categorizing Ash solely with the words "lesbian Cinderella" is not giving it nearly enough credit for what it does with gender and feminine agency and power.)
In non-fairy tale related news, before I unhook my computer from the Internet so I don't get distracted, does anyone have a link to the photo shoot that accompanied this article in the September 19, 2009 issue of Entertainment Weekly?
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Date: 2010-04-28 05:23 pm (UTC)http://tengossip.com/2009/09/12/fringe-in-entertainment-weekly-full-scans/
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Date: 2010-04-28 09:43 pm (UTC)...wait, does this mean we're going to start The Novel again? Is this your end of the school year?