{"title":"B(e)aring the Beast: Deformity, Animality, and the Ableist Gaze in French Literary Variants of \"Beauty and the Beast\"","authors":"Adrion Dula","doi":"10.13110/MARVELSTALES.34.2.0197","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines ableist ideology in various early modern \"Beauty and the Beast\" tales in contrast to Dominique Demers's 2001 novel Là où la mer commence (There, Where the Sea Begins). I first discuss how ableism permeates both the fairy-tale genre and, to varying degrees, \"Beauty and Beast\" tales so as to contextualize my reading of how disability is narrated in terms of animality and monstrosity in Demers's postmodern novel. I argue that, in Demers's adaptation, the heroine's acceptance of the beastly character may be read as her internal transition from an ableist gaze, which dehumanizes, stigmatizes, and marginalizes the disabled other, to a non-ableist gaze.","PeriodicalId":42276,"journal":{"name":"Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"197 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MARVELSTALES.34.2.0197","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay examines ableist ideology in various early modern "Beauty and the Beast" tales in contrast to Dominique Demers's 2001 novel Là où la mer commence (There, Where the Sea Begins). I first discuss how ableism permeates both the fairy-tale genre and, to varying degrees, "Beauty and Beast" tales so as to contextualize my reading of how disability is narrated in terms of animality and monstrosity in Demers's postmodern novel. I argue that, in Demers's adaptation, the heroine's acceptance of the beastly character may be read as her internal transition from an ableist gaze, which dehumanizes, stigmatizes, and marginalizes the disabled other, to a non-ableist gaze.
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Marvels & Tales (ISSN: 1521-4281) was founded in 1987 by Jacques Barchilon at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Originally known as Merveilles & contes, the journal expressed its role as an international forum for folktale and fairy-tale scholarship through its various aliases: Wunder & Märchen, Maravillas & Cuentos, Meraviglie & Racconti, and Marvels & Tales. In 1997, the journal moved to Wayne State University Press and took the definitive title Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. From the start, Marvels & Tales has served as a central forum for the multidisciplinary study of fairy tales. In its pages, contributors from around the globe have published studies, texts, and translations of fairy-tales from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. The Editorial Policy of Marvels & Tales encourages scholarship that introduces new areas of fairy-tale scholarship, as well as research that considers the traditional fairy-tale canon from new perspectives. The journal''s special issues have been particularly popular and have focused on topics such as "Beauty and the Beast," "The Romantic Tale," "Charles Perrault," "Marriage Tests and Marriage Quest in African Oral Literature," "The Italian Tale," and "Angela Carter and the Literary Märchen." Marvels & Tales is published every April and October by Wayne State University Press.
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