Fairy tales in service of political projects : “Hansel and Gretel” in changing political regimes

Tratnik, Polona (author)

The production of fairy tales depends on political interests. The tales’ regimes of production and anticipated reception condition their inscribed ideological inclinations and erasures. I examine how Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the brothers Grimm contributed to nation-building and, focusing on “Hansel and Gretel,” how the changing regimes of production required omissions in the translations of the Grimms’ tales into Slovenian. I argue that the sui generis appropriation of the tale titled “Janko and Metka” by the writer France Bevk helped build a socialist nation. Finally, the article comments on some issues in capitalist regimes of fairy-tale production.

• Language: English
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 43-57
• Numbering: Vol. 38, iss. 1, ǂArt. ǂ3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163185
• UDC: 316.74:398.2
• ISSN on article: 1521-4281
• COBISS.SI-ID: 210114051
• Publication date in RUL: 03.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Marvels & tales : journal of fairy-tale studies
• Shortened title: Marvels tales
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• ISSN: 1521-4281
• COBISS.SI-ID: 18998573

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Description: A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: pravljice, družbena funkcija, politična funkcija, kritična teorija, kapitalizem, socializem, narod, ideologija

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: N6-0268
• Name: Politične funkcije ljudskih pravljic

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P6-0435
• Name: Prakse reševanja sporov med običajnim in postavljenim pravom na območju današnje Slovenije in sosednjih dežel