Hosting an assemblage of highly respected scholars, Jo Parnell analyzes depiction of stepmothers in pop culture narratives from various points across the globe, including the United States of America, France, Maghreb, Algeria, Germany, England, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Nigeria, and South Korea.
From ancient times to the present, the stepmother has been likened to her folktale and fairy tale counterpart. In present times, with the rapid increases of global modernization, and with world political ideologies undergoing sweeping changes, people's perceptions of the stepmother are also changing. Through the lenses of race, ethnicity, gender, and class, this book explores the role and experiences pertaining to the stepmother in various cultures. Contributors examine and compare familial and societal duties as well as the personal realities and experiences of the stepmother in real life. By forming a direct comparison between the fictionalized archetype and their real world counterparts, the question of the original intention behind these portrayals is brought to the forefront.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Why So Wicked? Representations of Stepmothers in Popular German and Algerian Folktales
- 2 Saviors and Intruders: American Stepmothers of the 1960s Era Hollywood
- 3 It’s a Hard Knock Life: Truman Capote’s Holly Golightly, Cinderella, and Evil Stepmother in One Depression-Era, Orphaned Child Bride
- 4 Warring Women: The Biafran War and Depictions of Stepm(othering)
- 5 Beyond the Villain: The Stepmother Archetype in Soviet and Baltic Literature
- 6 Film Noir and Criminal Stepmothers of the Post-Second World War Era
- 7 From Folklore to Screen: Depicting the Stepmother in Korean Cinema
- 8 From Euripides to the Present: Reinventing the Ancients’ Amorous Stepmother
- Afterword
- Index
- Copyright Page
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