De-Fanged Fairy Tales
Joanna Weiss on the problems of sanitized fairy tales, a la Disney:
Rich in allegory, endlessly adaptable, fairy tales emerged as a framework for talking about social issues. When we remove the difficult parts - and effectively do away with the stories themselves - we’re losing a surprisingly useful common language.
(Link from Blog of a Bookslut) I recently found Angela Carter’s collection for children, Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales, at our library. I’m not sure 5yo Drake and 2yo Guppy have the attention span, but I know these won’t be toothless tales.