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[meta]: Women, Race, and Agency in Narratives: or why i stopped reading vertigo's fables.
Title: Women, Race, and Agency in Narratives: or why i stopped reading vertigo's fables.
Summary: Meta on Vertigo's "Fables" comics, exploring how race and gender play a part in fictional hierarchy and analyzing cultural/narrative appropriation.
Word Count: 1765
Fandom: Fables, general fairy tales.
"Fables' premise lent itself wonderfully to deconstructing some of the western fairy tales, and one of the things I loved most about it is that it did this by giving the damsels in distress like Cinderella, Snow White, and Briar Rose more agency than they ever had in their traditional stories. But once Fables introduced characters from Arabian fairy tales into its narrative, it became clear that Fables allowed this sort of gender deconstructive agency only to Western women, all of whom are portrayed as being white in Fablesverse."
Summary: Meta on Vertigo's "Fables" comics, exploring how race and gender play a part in fictional hierarchy and analyzing cultural/narrative appropriation.
Word Count: 1765
Fandom: Fables, general fairy tales.
"Fables' premise lent itself wonderfully to deconstructing some of the western fairy tales, and one of the things I loved most about it is that it did this by giving the damsels in distress like Cinderella, Snow White, and Briar Rose more agency than they ever had in their traditional stories. But once Fables introduced characters from Arabian fairy tales into its narrative, it became clear that Fables allowed this sort of gender deconstructive agency only to Western women, all of whom are portrayed as being white in Fablesverse."