Revisioning Red Riding Hood around the world : an anthology of international retellings

417 Pages·2014·73.06 MB·English

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Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives, Recycling Red Riding Hood, and De grands d

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On cover: Mon Chaperon Rouge, by Anne Ikhlef and Alain Gauthier.
Illustration by Alain Gauthier. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1998.
Illustrations copyright © Alain Gauthier.
Used by permission of Alain Gauthier.
Cover design by Martyn Schmoll
Wayne State University Press
Sandra L. Beckett
Detroit, Michigan 48201-1309
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Revisioning Red Riding Hood around the World
Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
General Editor
Donald Haase, Wayne State University
Advisory Editors
Cristina Bacchilega, University of Hawai`i, Mānoa
Stephen Benson, University of East Anglia
Nancy L. Canepa, Dartmouth College
Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University
Pauline Greenhill, University of Winnipeg
Christine A. Jones, University of Utah
Janet Langlois, Wayne State University
Ulrich Marzolph, University of Göttingen
Carolina Fernández Rodríguez, University of Oviedo
Maria Tatar, Harvard University
Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota
A complete listing of the books in this series
can be found online at wsupress.wayne.edu
Revisioning Red Riding Hood
around the World
An Anthology of International Retellings
Sandra L. Beckett
Wayne State University Press Detroit
© 2014 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without formal
permission. Manufactured in the United States of America.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013942573
ISBN: 978-0-8143-3479-9 (pbk.: alk. paper)—ISBN: 978-0-8143-3973-2 (ebook)
Published with the assistance of a fund established by Thelma Gray James
of Wayne State University for the publication of folklore and English studies.
To the globetrotting little girl in red who has
inspired so many revisions around the world . . .
And to Hailey, to whom I hope to read many of them
a girl walks into the woods.
little red riding hood.
nothing in her life has prepared her.
—Cornelia Hoogland, Woods Wolf Girl
Contents
Color Plates appear on pages 187–218
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: A Global Fairy-Tale Icon 1
1. Cautionary Tales for Modern Riding Hoods 13
Little Red Riding Hood (Caperucita Roja) 14
Gabriela Mistral
Little Riding Hood (Caperucita, 1908) 18
Little Riding Hood (Caperucita, 1954) 18
Francisco Villaespesa
Little Red Cap (Roodkapje, 1982) 21
Little Red Cap (Roodkapje, 1993) 21
Wim Hofman
Little Red Riding Hood (Akazukin-chan) 24
Kyoko Iwasaki
A Little Red Riding Hood (Un petit chaperon rouge) 30
Claude Clément and Isabelle Forestier
Pooh! How Did She Know? The Story of a Little Red Riding Hood
Who Escaped from Her Abductors (Ches! Eotteohge alassji? Honjaseo
gileul gadaga yugoebeomeul mulrichin bbalganmoja iyagi) 39
Mia Sim
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Little Red Riding Hood (Czerwony Kapturek) 45
Joanna Olech and Grażka Lange
The Story of Little Red Riding Hood Told to Children and Perhaps
Not (A História do Capuchinho Vermelho contada a crianças e nem
por isso) 52
Manuel António Pina
The Tale of a Red Cap (Skazka o krasnoi shapochke) 60
Vladimir Mayakovsky
2. Contemporary Riding Hoods Come of Age 63
Red Hat and the Wolf (Rødhatten og Ulven) 64
Fam Ekman
Red Red Red Riding Hood (Rood Rood Roodkapje) 68
Edward van de Vendel and Isabelle Vandenabeele
The Little Girl Who Knew How to Fly (La petite fille qui
savait voler) 72
Bruno de La Salle
Little Red Riding Hood in Central Park (Caperucita en
Central Park) 81
Carmen Martín Gaite
My Wolf (Mon Loup) 91
Anne Bertier
The Blinder Girl (Skylappjenta) 95
Iram Haq and Endre Skandfer
Little Blue Riding Hood (Caperucito Azul) 103
Hernán Rodríguez Castelo
Little Green Cap (Prassini Soufitsa) 113
Ioulita Iliopoulou
Little Gray Riding Hood (O Capuchinho Cinzento) 128
Matilde Rosa Araújo and André Letria