Il y a quelques semaines, le Kiosque écrivait : On ne nommera pas l’auteure québécoise, déjà affligée par la rectitude politique, de ces quelques phrases extraites d’une chronique, ô combien songée, sur les contes de fées.
Lire l’article ici.
Nous avons trouvé sur le web un petit bijou disponible en PDF :
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times by James Finn Garner.
Pami les contes :
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
RAPUNZEL
CINDERELLA
GOLDILOCKS
SNOW WHITE
THE FROG PRINCE
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
Extraits
Le Petit Chaperon rouge
So Red Riding Hood set off with her basket through the woods. Many people believed that the forest was a foreboding and dangerous place and never set foot in it. Red Riding Hood, however, was confident enough in her own budding sexuality that such obvious Freudian imaginery did not intimidate her.
Cendrillon
One day an invitation arrived at their house. The prince was celebrating his exploitation of the dispossessed and marginalized peasantry by throwing a fancy dress ball. Cinderella’s sisters-of-step were very excited to be invited to the palace. They began to plan the expensive clothes they would use to alter and enslave their natural body images to emulate an unrealistic standard of feminine beauty. (It was especially un realistic in their case, as they were differentlyvisaged enough to stop a clock.) Her mother-of-step also planned to go to the ball, so Cinderella was working harder than a dog (an appropriate if unfortunately speciesist metaphor).
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Le Kiosque avait signalé en 2014 que la version originale des contes de fées des frères Grimm avait été publiée. On est loin de Disney.