Buried Treasures

The Power of Political Fairy Tales

Narrated by Stephen Bowlby
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Pub Date Apr 04 2023 | Archive Date Apr 04 2023

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Description

Jack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to these remarkable works and their authors. In Buried Treasures, Zipes describes his special passion for uncovering political fairy tales of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, offers fascinating profiles of more than a dozen of their writers and illustrators, and shows why they deserve greater attention and appreciation. These writers and artists used their remarkable talents to confront political oppression and economic exploitation by creating alternative, imaginative worlds that test the ethics and morals of the real world and expose hidden truths. Among the figures we meet here are Édouard Laboulaye, a jurist who wrote acute fairy tales about justice; Charles Godfrey Leland, a folklorist who found other worlds in tales of Native Americans, witches, and Roma; Kurt Schwitters, an artist who wrote satirical, antiauthoritarian stories; Mariette Lydis, a painter who depicted lost-and-found souls; Lisa Tetzner, who dramatized exploitation by elites; Felix Salten, who unveiled the real meaning of Bambi's dangerous life in the forest; and Gianni Rodari, whose work showed just how political and insightful fantasy stories can be.

Jack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers...


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Advance Praise

“Jack Zipes, the most zestful, committed, and engaging advocate of fairy tales writing today, has been hunting high and low, from the British Library to junk shops, to draw from the shadows forgotten, censored, lost stories that serve the genre’s intrinsic emancipatory and critical impulse. This lifelong quest to forge a new fairy tale corpus has come to fruition with Buried Treasures; it offers a startling, alternative history of fairy tales, in which writers and artists explore the form with wit and insider knowledge to expose wrongs and make fresh hope possible. In times like these, their voices are much needed.” ―Marina Warner, author of Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale

“Jack Zipes, the most zestful, committed, and engaging advocate of fairy tales writing today, has been hunting high and low, from the British Library to junk shops, to draw from the shadows...


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EDITION Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN 9781696610933
PRICE $19.99 (USD)
DURATION 8 Hours, 37 Minutes

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