Document Type
Honors Project - Open Access
Abstract
This project traces the past fifty years of short-form fairy tale retellings authored by women, identifying formal and thematic continuities that define the mode. Building on Adrienne Rich’s concept of “revisioning,” it argues that the political work of these intertextual tales has evolved alongside feminist and queer theory, the emergence of fairy tale studies, and the cultural dominance of children’s fairy tale media. It delineates the short-form retelling as a distinct genre, highlighting its subversive feminist tendencies, and draws on affect, aesthetic, and queer theory, and genre studies to show how these texts reshape narrative expectations and cultural norms.
Recommended Citation
Murray, Emma M., "Mouth, Sex, and Hungry Heart: Anatomy of the Short-Form Fairy Tale Retelling" (2026). English Honors Projects. 59.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/english_honors/59
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