And They Lived Happily Never After
On the Anti-utopian Function of Postmodern Polish Fairy Tales by Bohdan Butenko, Hanna Krall, and Sławomir Shuty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12750418 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kostecka Kostecka (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 296-296 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Marvels & Tales (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1521-4281 • E-ISSN: 1536-1802 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.13110/marvelstales.32.2.0296 |
| OpenAlex | W2921022780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
My goal is to show how the experience of the communist regime that affected Poland in the twentieth century—that is, the political, social, and mental situation of Poles before the fall of communism in 1989—is reflected in the works discussed. I focus on these fairy-tale texts' motifs of sociopolitical oppression and on the metafictional dimension of oppression. By using the descriptor "anti-utopian function of the fairy tale," I refer to Jack Zipes's idea of the fairy tale as a utopian genre and argue these postmodern Polish fairy tales question this utopian dimension
Aesthetics · Art · Communism · Ideology · Literature · Oppression · Politics · Postmodernism · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Studies · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |