In Cinderella across Cultures, editors Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Roch#65533 re, Gillian Lathey, and Monika Wozniak analyze the Cinderella tale as a fascinating, multilayered, and ever-changing story constantly reinvented in different media and traditions. The focus of this volume, however, is neither Cinderella as an item of folklore nor its alleged universal meaning. She was self-reliant, devoted to family and ancestors, and willing to make her own future."Ĭinderella Across Cultures by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère (Editor) Gillian Lathey (Editor) Monika Wozniak (Editor) The Cinderella story is retold continuously in literature, illustration, music, theatre, ballet, opera, film, and other media, and folklorists have recognized hundreds of distinct forms of Cinderella plots worldwide. The earlier Cinderella, in many of her original forms, was not a wishing-only kind of person.
But this is the Cinderella of the later twentieth century. Billy Beg of Ireland is just one of many of these versions of the story.Ĭinderella, despite her popularity, has developed a reputation as a simpering, whimpering girl who is helpless until the right magic comes along.
Male Cinderellas do appear, and not just in parodies, such as Helen Ketteman’s Bubba the Cowboy Prince and Sandi Takayama’s Sumorella, listed below. Most renderings of the story include an evil stepmother and stepsister(s), a dead mother, a dead or ineffective father, some sort of gathering such as a ball or festival, mutual attraction with a person of high status, a lost article, and a search that ends with success. Charles Perrault is believed to be the author, in the 1690s, of our “modern” 300-year-old Cinderella, the French Cendrillon.įamous children's writers and illustrators have interpreted Cinderella, including Arthur Rackham, Marcia Brown (her version won the Caldecott Medal in 1955), Nonny Hogrogian, Paul Galdone, and Amy Ehrlich. But Cinderella is not just one story more than 500 versions have been found-just in Europe! The tale’s origins appear to date back to a Chinese story from the ninth century, “Yeh-Shen.” Almost every culture seems to have its own version, and every storyteller his or her tale.
"The story of Cinderella, perhaps the best-known fairy tale, is told or read to children of very young ages.
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