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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It is with a heavy heart that I note my star rating. Someone described this book, and the actual book wound up being so different. The structure is terrible. I had thought this book would examine and draw paraellels to Grimm tales and Disney versions, and disabilities characters had; while the author mentioned her own experiences with disability. I thought it would be a collection of essays. It was not that. She repeats herself OFTEN. She examines, then keeps mentioning, the same handful of Grimm tales and the same three Disney movies so often that I honestly started wondering if she realized others existed. Another reviewer on here wondered why Hook from "Peter Pan," for example, was never mentioned. GOOD QUESTION. -That- would have been so interesting to explore as thoroughly as Leduc did "The Little Mermaid." Many disability activists and educators were interviewed for the book, and I was delighted to see their names and read what they had to say. Leduc spends about half the book repeating and adding details of her own experiences with disability and bullying. It's not solidly weaved into the book; it's dumped in at odd places with no reason nor transition. The book gets wordy at the end, and the conclusion and the afterword blend together. There were sentences I read out loud to myself, stunned at how I wasn't alone and how another person's similar experiences validated me so much. I've been disabled and medically complex since I was a baby. I wanted to see myself in this book, but I hardly did. When I did, I was indeed thrilled. I'm really glad I read this, and parts of it were educational, validating, and wonderful, but it ultimately wasn't what I was looking for. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Challenges the ableism of fairy tales and offers new ways to celebrate the magic of all bodies. In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm - as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After all, the ogre never gets the princess. And since fairy tales are the foundational myths of our culture, how can a girl with a disability ever think she'll have a happy ending? By examining the ways that fairy tales have shaped our expectations of disability, Disfigured will point the way toward a new world where disability is no longer a punishment or impediment but operates, instead, as a way of centering a protagonist and helping them to cement their own place in a story, and from there, the world. Through the book, Leduc ruminates on the connections we make between fairy tale archetypes - the beautiful princess, the glass slipper, the maiden with long hair lost in the tower - and tries to make sense of them through a twenty-first-century disablist lens. From examinations of disability in tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen through to modern interpretations ranging from Disney to Angela Carter, and the fight for disabled representation in today's media, Leduc connects the fight for disability justice to the growth of modern, magical stories, and argues for increased awareness and acceptance of that which is other - helping us to see and celebrate the magic inherent in different bodies."--
Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is an oversimplified review because this book had a much deeper affect on me than I thought it would. ( )