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Unbreakable Glass Slippers: Hegemony In Ella Enchanted, Tori Shereen Mirsadjadi
Unbreakable Glass Slippers: Hegemony In Ella Enchanted, Tori Shereen Mirsadjadi
Scripps Senior Theses
The way Gail Carson Levine’s Ella Enchanted simultaneously conforms to its late-20th-century American standards and rebels against its Cinderella origins is analyzed in this thesis. As an analysis of a piece of literature written for children, the thesis works to defend the notion that playful literature produces a serious dialogue with its readers, and that young female readers are a particularly apropos group for the dialogue about hegemony that Ella Enchanted allows.