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Unfairy Tales And Other Refugee Stories: Creating Relations Through The Humanitarian Imagination In Mohsin Hamid's Exit West And Helen Oyeyemi's Gingerbread, Gabriella Pishotti
Unfairy Tales And Other Refugee Stories: Creating Relations Through The Humanitarian Imagination In Mohsin Hamid's Exit West And Helen Oyeyemi's Gingerbread, Gabriella Pishotti
Graduate Student Scholarship
Contrary to many analyses of refugee narratives that focus on how their subject matter becomes compromised by issues of authority, believability, and expectation, this article explores how refugee novels such as Mohsin Hamid's Exit West and Helen Oyeyemi's Gingerbread lean into such problems in a way that appeals to the humanitarian imagination. These novels recognize the incomprehensibility of the refugee experience and play upon this reality by intermixing their stories with fairy tale elements. In doing so, the tropes of fairy tales provide these stories with greater narrative flexibility while making the unfamiliar realities of refugees comprehensible through familiar narrative …
Andersen’S Fairy Tales And The Bildungsroman, Joseph Torres
Andersen’S Fairy Tales And The Bildungsroman, Joseph Torres
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Fracturing The Mirror: Girls Made Of Snow And Glass, Abigael Good
Fracturing The Mirror: Girls Made Of Snow And Glass, Abigael Good
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
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Dear Mr. Anderson: An Open Letter To The Danish Storyteller About Craft And Style, Alexa Jones
Dear Mr. Anderson: An Open Letter To The Danish Storyteller About Craft And Style, Alexa Jones
Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects
An analysis of Hand Christian Anderson fairy tales and a letter to the author
Fairy Tale Stylization Project, Dan Gleason
Fairy Tale Stylization Project, Dan Gleason
Dan Gleason
The Fairy Tale project is a group project that captures the key distinctions in literary style that we analyze in our Modern World Fiction class. In that class, we look at fiction through the lens of different stylistic flavors: maximalism, minimalism, ludic (playful) style, surrealism, and magical realism. The fairy tale project helps students look back on all these different styles, reflect on them, and note their key features and differences more clearly. In this project, groups of students will rewrite a fairy tale in all (five) literary styles. Each member of the group will rewrite the tale in one …
Fairy Tale Stylization Project, Dan Gleason
Fairy Tale Stylization Project, Dan Gleason
Modern World Fiction
The Fairy Tale project is a group project that captures the key distinctions in literary style that we analyze in our Modern World Fiction class. In that class, we look at fiction through the lens of different stylistic flavors: maximalism, minimalism, ludic (playful) style, surrealism, and magical realism. The fairy tale project helps students look back on all these different styles, reflect on them, and note their key features and differences more clearly. In this project, groups of students will rewrite a fairy tale in all (five) literary styles. Each member of the group will rewrite the tale in one …