“Be a man”: Constructions of Childhood in Priscilla Galloway’s Truly Grim Tales
“Be a man”: Constructions of Childhood in Priscilla Galloway’s Truly Grim Tales
“Be a man”: Constructions of Childhood in Priscilla Galloway’s Truly Grim Tales
Author(s): Monika KoșaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Family and social welfare, Victimology
Published by: Editura Universitatii din Oradea
Keywords: contemporary; fairy-tale; Canadian literature; rewriting; children; gender; domestic violence;
Summary/Abstract: The publication of Priscilla Galloway’s Truly Grim Tales in 1995 played a significant role in the evolution of the Canadian literary fairy tale. The stories from the collection are innovative both on a linguistic and thematic level. By focusing on selected tales from this collection, the present paper aims at exploring the representation of children and childhood in Priscilla Galloway’s idiosyncratic stories. These revisionist tales reinterpret complex issues such as gender, sexuality and/or childhood in accordance with the socio-cultural-historical context. Thus, the construction of childhood and portrayal of children is connected to the cultural, social and historical frame of reference and can generate further research on an interdisciplinary level.
Journal: Confluenţe. Texts and Contexts Reloaded
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 128-137
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English