{"title":"Rumpelstiltskin's (Queer) Secret: Nonbinary Bodies Buried between the Lines of the Brothers Grimm","authors":"A. Meyertholen","doi":"10.13110/MARVELSTALES.35.1.0036","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The strangeness of \"Rumpelstiltskin\" continues to fascinate audiences and perplex folklorists long after reaching the Grimms from women storytellers in the spinning chamber. Despite its discovery in the tale, Rumpelstiltskin's identity remains mysterious from beginning to end. While previous scholarship decodes the figure as an avatar for male oppression or opportunity for female resistance, this article argues that Rumpelstiltskin is not interchangeable with or symbolic of patriarchal institutions but rather an ambiguous body victimized by them. \"Rumpelstiltskin\" read queerly with an expanded spectrum of gender and sexuality challenges the heteronormative assumptions embedded in the text and gives voice to queer subjectivities.","PeriodicalId":42276,"journal":{"name":"Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"36 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MARVELSTALES.35.1.0036","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:The strangeness of "Rumpelstiltskin" continues to fascinate audiences and perplex folklorists long after reaching the Grimms from women storytellers in the spinning chamber. Despite its discovery in the tale, Rumpelstiltskin's identity remains mysterious from beginning to end. While previous scholarship decodes the figure as an avatar for male oppression or opportunity for female resistance, this article argues that Rumpelstiltskin is not interchangeable with or symbolic of patriarchal institutions but rather an ambiguous body victimized by them. "Rumpelstiltskin" read queerly with an expanded spectrum of gender and sexuality challenges the heteronormative assumptions embedded in the text and gives voice to queer subjectivities.
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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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