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Cinderella Goes Cyborg: Post-human Re-Imagining of Fairy Tale in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder
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In the last decades of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21th, the fairy tale witnessed a remarkable dialectical
development by the vast majority of fairy tale writers and critics who have contributed to the popularization of the genre. This
study offers a discursive and historical analysis of the traditional fairy tale of Cinderella and its modern retelling in the
cyberpunk science-fiction genre as seen in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder, a novel in The Lunar Chronicles series. The traditional fairy
tale usually regenerates social and cultural constructions, mainly those norms on gendering the female body. It is argued that
contemporary posthuman critical theory has been fundamental in contributing to current debates and negotiating the
traditional gendering issue, particularly in regard to the female and female cyborg body. Taking advantage of the contemporary
posthuman critical theory, and the cyborg subject presented by Donna Haraway and promoted by Anne Balsamo’s readings on
the cyborg, the principal objective of this study is to investigate the main reasons and social constructions behind a female
image model that lasted for many centuries and which is still active, and to scrutinize the traditional fairy tale of Cinderella
under these lenses. The most obvious finding to emerge from the study is that cyborg technologies have been adopted by
Haraway and her contemporaries, offering a chance to challenge all the biased sexual politics, gendering norms and other social
practices that depict the female body in an exaggerated feminized way, and draw a faulty image of woman for the generations
to come.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
İkinci Bir Dil Olarak İngilizce
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Mart 2020
Gönderilme Tarihi
21 Ocak 2020
Kabul Tarihi
15 Mart 2020
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2020 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 1
APA
Aliyev, J., & Abed, R. G. (2020). Cinderella Goes Cyborg: Post-human Re-Imagining of Fairy Tale in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder. International Journal of Languages’ Education and Teaching, 8(1), 198-213. https://doi.org/10.29228/ijlet.41446
AMA
1.Aliyev J, Abed RG. Cinderella Goes Cyborg: Post-human Re-Imagining of Fairy Tale in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder. IJLET. 2020;8(1):198-213. doi:10.29228/ijlet.41446
Chicago
Aliyev, Javid, ve Rasheed Ghassan Abed. 2020. “Cinderella Goes Cyborg: Post-human Re-Imagining of Fairy Tale in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder”. International Journal of Languages’ Education and Teaching 8 (1): 198-213. https://doi.org/10.29228/ijlet.41446.
EndNote
Aliyev J, Abed RG (01 Mart 2020) Cinderella Goes Cyborg: Post-human Re-Imagining of Fairy Tale in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder. International Journal of Languages’ Education and Teaching 8 1 198–213.
IEEE
[1]J. Aliyev ve R. G. Abed, “Cinderella Goes Cyborg: Post-human Re-Imagining of Fairy Tale in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder”, IJLET, c. 8, sy 1, ss. 198–213, Mar. 2020, doi: 10.29228/ijlet.41446.
ISNAD
Aliyev, Javid - Abed, Rasheed Ghassan. “Cinderella Goes Cyborg: Post-human Re-Imagining of Fairy Tale in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder”. International Journal of Languages’ Education and Teaching 8/1 (01 Mart 2020): 198-213. https://doi.org/10.29228/ijlet.41446.
JAMA
1.Aliyev J, Abed RG. Cinderella Goes Cyborg: Post-human Re-Imagining of Fairy Tale in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder. IJLET. 2020;8:198–213.
MLA
Aliyev, Javid, ve Rasheed Ghassan Abed. “Cinderella Goes Cyborg: Post-human Re-Imagining of Fairy Tale in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder”. International Journal of Languages’ Education and Teaching, c. 8, sy 1, Mart 2020, ss. 198-13, doi:10.29228/ijlet.41446.
Vancouver
1.Javid Aliyev, Rasheed Ghassan Abed. Cinderella Goes Cyborg: Post-human Re-Imagining of Fairy Tale in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder. IJLET. 01 Mart 2020;8(1):198-213. doi:10.29228/ijlet.41446