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Publication Date: 2015-Feb
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The Indecisive Feminist: Study of Anne Sexton's Revisionist Fairy Tales
Mohammed, Nadia Fayidh
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, v6 n1 p31-40 Feb 2015
Fairy tales to female writers are major resource for their abundant writings, but for the feminist poets since 1960s, they become essential subject matter to often deal with in their literary production. With the motivation to address the conventional tradition of patriarchal society, and re-address the stereotype females inhabiting these tales, feminist writers set upon revealing the underlying sub-context of these tales, presenting them with more adult-suited themes. Anne Sexton's "Transformation" is a pioneering revision of Grimm's fairy tales in which the poet does not only satirize the patriarchal society she grew up in, but she also rejects the female stereotype that her upbringing intended her to be. In the following paper, the feminist messages which Sexton's fairy tales intended to deliver are examined to reveal the poet's position concerning feminism and her relationship with female role-models and the male figures she presents in her fairy tales.
Descriptors: Feminism, Fairy Tales, Poetry, United States Literature, Sex Stereotypes, Role Models, Females, Males
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