{"product_id":"justice-in-21st-century-fairy-tales-cristina-bacchilega-9781350348264","title":"Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder","description":"\u003cp\u003eExploring a range of international works such as films, streaming television series, a graphic novel, and a picture book, this open access book interrogates how, and to what extent, fairy tales are put to work for justice in the areas of environment and ecology, kinship and family, ability and disability, and sex and gender. As Bacchilega and Greenhill demonstrate, some 21st-century fairy tales channel the genre's wonder to offer otherwise possibilities for being and acting in the world that are not confined to socially sanctioned paths. Drawing on visual and audio-visual case studies of texts such as\u003ci\u003e The Magic Fish, Juli?n Is A Mermaid, Pokot [Spoor], Gr?ns [Border], The Dragon Prince, Gatta Cenerentola [Cinderella the Cat], \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Sweet Tooth\u003c\/i\u003e, they examine how the wonder and preternatural of fairy tales model a sustained desire to believe in and realize new ways of existence that have often been too easily dismissed. \u003cbr\u003eGuided by theories in fields including ecological, gender, disability, critical race, Indigenous, fantasy, posthuman, and adaptation studies as they intersect with folklore and fairy tale studies, this book examines how creators of wonder tales since the beginning of the new millenium have presented provocations around humans' political and social relations with nature and culture. Analyzing justice from a variety of positions and establishing how tales of the otherwise can develop optative thinking, \u003ci\u003eJustice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder \u003c\/i\u003erefutes the conservative, patriarchal, and merely nostalgic Disnified narrative of the genre and insists on the power of wonder within and beyond fairy tales.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant 435-2019-0691 and The University of Winnipeg, Canada.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cristina Bacchilega, Pauline Greenhill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350348260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350348264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d","brand":"Cristina Bacchilega","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46795497767167,"sku":"9781350348264","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4203a727-6980-41c7-aa0e-1e4dddd5f71b.jpg?v=1744947788","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/justice-in-21st-century-fairy-tales-cristina-bacchilega-9781350348264","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}