Film, Video The Cinderella No One Knows: The Grimm Brothers' Tale of Incest, Fur & Hidden Bodies

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Title

  • The Cinderella No One Knows: The Grimm Brothers' Tale of Incest, Fur & Hidden Bodies

Summary

  • Folklorist Margaret R. Yocom discusses less well-known versions of Cinderella, particularly the international story of Allerleirauh, found in Asia and Africa as well as Europe. She focuses on the heroine and her journey through the gendered, sexually redolent landscape of the tale???s provocative middle section. As she explains, it is not the marriage at the end that draws the listener in, but the way the heroine makes her way there.

Event Date

  • February 20, 2013

Notes

  • -  Margaret R. Yocom is a professor in the English Department of George Mason University who specializes in traditional narrative, material culture, family folklore and gender studies. She teaches courses in traditional narrative and storytelling, traditional arts, folklore and gender, ethnographic writing, the traditional ballad and folklore and creative writing. Her current work in progress is a book on the traditional arts of the Richard family of Rangeley, Maine, entitled "Generations in Wood."

Running Time

  • 1 hours 7 minutes 31 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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