From Ancient Mesopotamia to Shakespeare to Arnhem Land, humans have been telling tails of mermaids for millennia.
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Disney’s new Black mermaid has been called ‘inauthentic’ – but fairy tales have always been repurposed across cultures. And Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid was different from Disney’s.
The latest fairy tale movie from Disney has a dark twist, so it’s right on trend.
There is nothing new about a shoe fetish. Fairy tales have long featured amazing, high-tech footwear: from seven-league boots to glass slippers to red shoes.
The row over Sleeping Beauty is just the latest in a long history of controversy surrounding fairy tales for children.
Children’s literature may be a modern genre, but there is a long history of writing for children with some surprisingly unchanging elements.
The Industrial Revolution choked English cities in smog, filled rivers with waste and spread disease in crowded cities. At the same time, fairy tales about humans destroying nature proliferated.
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash University
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PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Research Associate, University of Sydney
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Researcher, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in medieval and early modern history, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Film and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer in Romantic and Victorian Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
