Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale (review)
2004; Wayne State University Press; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/mat.2004.0014
ISSN1536-1802
Autores Tópico(s)Media, Gender, and Advertising
ResumoCatherine Orenstein's book is a delightful venture into the European and North American textual tradition of "Little Red Riding Hood." Beginning with Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century French text and ending with Matthew Bright's 1996 American movie adaptation, Freeway, Orenstein explores the tale's manifestations in jokes, cartoons, post cards, dolls, poetry, short stories, advertising, television, and movies, in addition to academic and popular collections of fairy tales and popularly marketed chapbooks and children's books. Along the way, she draws on an eclectic mix of critical and theoretical approaches to the tale (social and historical, psychological, structural, and feminist, as well as the discourse on gender and sexuality) in order to develop a thesis that acknowledges the tale's "timeless and universal" qualities, but which ultimately is far more interested in the tale's culturally specific adaptations to time and place. As Orenstein explains, her purpose regarding the figure of Little Red Riding Hood is to "explore some of her multitude of reincarnations, not in search of universal truths, but on the contrary, as evidence of how human truths change" (5).
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