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horrorbutch 's review for:
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
by Amanda Leduc
This book combines the literary analysis of disability in fairy tales with the author's own experiences with disability. It is a very interesting and accessible for beginners in the fields of literary analysis and disability activism.
If you are interested in fairy tales and particulary the way class and physical difference is portrayed in there, this is a quite interesting book, albeit being sometimes a bit short and not going into as much depth as I would have liked. Instead of going into detail with one form of fairy tales that author chose to include a overview of Grimm's fairytales (often including the Disney versions) as well as superhero stories to offer a wider variety, which was quite interesting.
I also enjoyed the way the author combined her own experience as a disabled child with her love of fairytales, how these experiences influenced each other and why she chose to investigate this field.
All in all a quite enjoyable read and one I can recommend.
If you are interested in fairy tales and particulary the way class and physical difference is portrayed in there, this is a quite interesting book, albeit being sometimes a bit short and not going into as much depth as I would have liked. Instead of going into detail with one form of fairy tales that author chose to include a overview of Grimm's fairytales (often including the Disney versions) as well as superhero stories to offer a wider variety, which was quite interesting.
I also enjoyed the way the author combined her own experience as a disabled child with her love of fairytales, how these experiences influenced each other and why she chose to investigate this field.
All in all a quite enjoyable read and one I can recommend.