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Negotiating spaces for women in society by retelling fairy tales

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bracu.degree.levelPostgraduate
bracu.type.groupStudent Works
datacite.rightsOpen Access
dc.contributor.advisorMahbub, Dr. Rifat
dc.contributor.authorFerdous, Syeda Tahmina
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of English and Humanities
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-01T05:18:20Z
dc.date.available2017-03-01T05:18:20Z
dc.date.copyright2016
dc.date.issued2016-11
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (page 40-42).
dc.descriptionThis thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, 2016.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the ways in which fairy tales affect our socio-political realities, and how by manipulating these tales we are able to manipulate the roles we actually play in the society. This paper believes that fairy tales are a tool of patriarchal acculturation, and we retell these stories to fit a feminist narrative, we challenge this acculturation, and we are able to negotiate spaces for women in society. It looks at the idea of space and the archetypes of the princess and the witch. While in traditional telling they are binary opposites, retold versions show how princesses need not be passive paragons of patriarchal virtue, and a witch is only human.en_US
dc.description.degreeMaster of Arts in English
dc.description.statementofresponsibilitySyeda Tahmina Ferdous
dc.format.extent42 pages
dc.identifier.otherID 15163013
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10361/7821
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBRAC Universityen_US
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dc.subjectFairy talesen_US
dc.subjectWomen societyen_US
dc.titleNegotiating spaces for women in society by retelling fairy talesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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