Title: Aimee Bender’s Fiction and the Intertextual Ingestion of Fairy Tales
Abstract: If, as Stephen Benson describes them, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Margaret Atwood, A. S. Byatt, and Salman Rushdie constitute the “fairy-tale generation” prominent at the end of the twentieth century, Aimee Bender may be a leading figure of the next generation. Bender’s contribution to the fairy-tale corpus broadly comprises four categories: acknowledgment of conventional form; intertextual appropriation of common themes and motifs; an exploration of the fairy tale’s paradigm of the family dynamic; and the invention of fresh autonomous tales. Throughout her surrealist fiction Bender incorporates familiar fairy-tale patterns into new stories about the negotiation of loss, disconnection, and fragmentation in a postmodern world.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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