Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales
Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales
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Despite the availability of several eloquent gender studies of fairy tales, a popular reference on men and fairy tales has so far been nonexistent.
Brothers and Beasts
offers a new perspective by allowing twenty-three male writers the chance to explore their artistic and emotional relationship to their favorite fairy-tale stories. In their personal essays, the contributors - who include genre, literary, mainstream, and visual media writers - offer new insight into men’s reception of fairy tales.
Brothers and Beasts , the follow-up to Kate Bernheimer’s influential
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales , offers new avenues for research in fairy-tale studies.Bernheimer has invited many well-known writers to contribute to this volume, from Gregory Maguire, whose acclaimed titles include
Wicked ,
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister , and
Son of a Witch , to Robert Coover, one of the premier authors of postmodern fiction, to Neil Gaiman, a well-known fantasy fiction writer and author of graphic novels. With a foreword by Maria Tatar and an afterword by Jack Zipes, the intimate and contemplative essays are framed by insight from two leading fairy-tale studies scholars. Brothers and Beasts
proves that men are deeply influenced by the childhood reading of fairy tales, despite the fact that these fantastic and memorable tales are often mistakenly considered to be the domain of women readers and writers. Students and teachers of fairy-tale and gender studies along with readers of contemporary literature will enjoy this accessible and intriguing volume.
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