Woke Cinderella

Release on 2020-10-14 | by Suzy Woltmann

Another Cinderella Story, Santostefano. 84. There have been versions of male
Cinderellas, including a film around the same time by Ron Howard, Cinderella
Man (2005), based on the true story about a Depression-era, working poor boxer,
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Author: Suzy Woltmann
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781793625953
Category: Social Science
Page: 286
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Woke Cinderella

Glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a ball, a prince, an evil stepfamily, and a poor girl known for sitting amongst the ashes: incarnations of the "Cinderella" fairy tale have resonated throughout the ages. Hidden between the lines of this fairy tale exists a history of fantasy about agency, power, and empowerment. This book examines twenty-first-century “Cinderella” adaptations that envision the classic tale in the twenty-first century through the lens of wokenesss by shifting rhetorical implications and self-reflexively granting different possibilities for protagonists. The contributors argue that the "Cinderella" archetype expands past traditional takes on the passive princess. From Sex and the City to Game of Thrones, from cyborg "Cinderellas" to Inglorious Basterds, contributors explore gender-bending and feminist adaptations, explorations of race and the body, and post-human and post-truth rewritings. The collection posits that contemporary “Cinderella” adaptations create a substantive cultural product that both inform and reflect a contemporary social zeitgeist.