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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2019  
         
  Article:   QUEERING THE FAIRY-TALE IN ANNE SEXTON’S TRANSFORMATIONS.

Authors:  FLORINA NĂSTASE.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  
Queering the Fairy-Tale in Anne Sexton’s Transformations. The current paper explores Anne Sexton’s volume of poetry, Transformations (1971), from a queer, feminist perspective. Each of the seventeen poems offers a distorted retelling of a Brothers Grimm fairy-tale, often replete with pop culture references and black humor. The paper examines the strategies of queering that the poet employs in her deconstruction of myths, storytelling, family relations (such as motherhood and fatherhood), gender roles, deformity and disability, and many other difficult subjects. The author makes use of feminist and queer theory, while also casting light upon the construct of the fairy-tale and why it offers a space for queer exploration. The fairy-tale allows the poet to examine aspects of trauma and intimacy at a remove, but with a view towards catharsis.

Keywords: fairy-tale, queer, queer theory, retelling, feminism, abject.
 
         
     
         
         
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