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RE: Where have all the folktales gone
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From: Del Negro, Janice <jdelnegro_at_dom.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:10:20 -0500
There was a great deal of controversy regarding traditional folktales published for youth in the 1980s and 1990s, related to the authenticity of the tales, the representation of cultures, the cultural identities of the retellers and adapters, and the use (or not) of source notes.
Folktales, traditionally seen as a staple of juvenile collections, were being viewed in a less than positive light.
This may well have caused some publishers to reconsider the profitability of publishing this type of material.
Best,
Janice M. Del Negro
GSLIS/Dominican University
River Forest, Illinois
"Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." ~Frederick Buechner
Received on Wed 17 Mar 2010 02:10:20 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:10:20 -0500
There was a great deal of controversy regarding traditional folktales published for youth in the 1980s and 1990s, related to the authenticity of the tales, the representation of cultures, the cultural identities of the retellers and adapters, and the use (or not) of source notes.
Folktales, traditionally seen as a staple of juvenile collections, were being viewed in a less than positive light.
This may well have caused some publishers to reconsider the profitability of publishing this type of material.
Best,
Janice M. Del Negro
GSLIS/Dominican University
River Forest, Illinois
"Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." ~Frederick Buechner
Received on Wed 17 Mar 2010 02:10:20 PM CDT
