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This book examines contemporary "Cinderella" fairy tale adaptations to argue that the traditionally passive princess has been updated for the 21st century. Using wokeness as a theoretical lens, it analyzes the "Cinderella" story's potentiality as a social gauge for how we construe gender, sex, agency, and power.
List of contents
Preface: Cinderella and Wokeness by Suzy Woltmann
Part I: Girl Power: Feminist and Queer Readings
Chapter 1: Gen Z Cinder(f)ellas: Girl Powered Gender Adaptations in the A Cinderella Story Films by Sarah E. Maier and Jessica Raven
Chapter 2: "With this Shoe I Thee Wed": Cinderella as Agent of the Backlash in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Sex and the City (2008) by Aoileann Ni 'Eigeartaigh
Chapter 3: "Have Courage and be Kind": The Emancipatory Potential of 21
st Century Fairy Tale Adaptations of "Cinderella" by Svea Hundertmark
Chapter 4: Two Centuries of Queer Horizon: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella by Christine Case
Part II: (Re)Production: A Classic Tale Told Anew
Chapter 5: Queen of the Ashes: Daenerys Targaryen, Cinderella of the Apocalypse, and Her Mirror Prince, in Game of Thrones by Loraine Haywood
Chapter 6: Forgive me Mother for I have Sinned: Cinderella's Stepmother meets Derrida's Forgiveness by Brittany Eldridge
Chapter 7: Tiana Just Isn't Woke: Reassessing the "Cinderella" Narrative in Disney's The Princess and the Frog by Camille S. Alexander
Chapter 8: Predestination or the Rediscovery of Agency by Christian Jiminez
Chapter 9: Deaf Cinderella: The Construction of a Woke Cultural Identity by Carolina Alves Magaldi
and Lucas Alves Mendes
Part III: Post-Human and Post-Truth Cinderellas
Chapter 10: Dragons, Magical Objects, and Posthuman Social Criticism: Rethinking the Cinderella Trope in Tui T. Sutherland's The Lost Heir by Rachel L. Carazo
Chapter 11: Cyborg-erella: Marissa Meyer's Cinder as a New Type of Other by Alexandra Lykissas
Chapter 12: Once Upon a Time in Occupied France: Inglourious Basterds, Cinderella and Post-Truth Politics by Ryan Habermeyer
Conclusion: A Postmodern Princess:Rhetorical Strategies of Contemporary "Cinderella" Adaptations by Suzy Woltmann
About the author
Edited by Suzy Woltmann - Contributions by Camille S. Alexander; Rachel L. Carazo; Christine Case; Brittany Eldridge; Ryan Habermeyer; Loraine Haywood; Svea Hundertmark; Christian Jiminez; Alexandra Lykissas; Carolina Alves Magdali; Sarah E. Maier; Lucas
Summary
This book examines contemporary "Cinderella" fairy tale adaptations to argue that the traditionally passive princess has been updated for the 21st century. Using wokeness as a theoretical lens, it analyzes the "Cinderella" story's potentiality as a social gauge for how we construe gender, sex, agency, and power.
