Twisted Fairy Tale: Promoting Multiculturalism in Young Adult Postmodern Picture Book

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10.2991/assehr.k.201230.032How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Fairy Tale, Multiculturalism, Parody, Picture Book, Postmodernism

Abstract

The flexibility and anonymity of the traditional oral fairy tale enable this genre to be adapted and adjusted to any contemporary thought, including the postmodernism. This open-minded and critical notion of postmodernism are represented in the nowadays fairy tale to its media, function, and content. This article aims to interpret critically and creatively those three factors embodied in Lela Lee’s Snow Yellow in Fairy Tales for Angry Little Girls, as one of the provocative postmodern children picture books that promote multicultural issues. The concept of multiculturalism in this study refers to the theory of multicultural literature for Children and Young Adults proposed by Cai. This study carries out the qualitative research with content analysis and eclectic approaches. The results of the interpretation show that 1) the media factor demonstrates its uniqueness, creativity and innovation, while 2) the content which is supported by the media represent the multicultural issues related to race, gender, and class of the marginalized community and 3) the function of the studied fairy tale is as a parody.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Indrani Dewi Anggraini
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/31
TI  - Twisted Fairy Tale: Promoting Multiculturalism in Young Adult Postmodern Picture Book
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 167
EP  - 171
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201230.032
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.032
ID  - Anggraini2020
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