Araştırma Makalesi

Cinderella Goes Cyborg: Post-human Re-Imagining of Fairy Tale in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder

Cilt: 8 Sayı: 1 30 Mart 2020
PDF İndir
EN TR

Cinderella Goes Cyborg: Post-human Re-Imagining of Fairy Tale in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder

Öz

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

  1. Baker, D.J. (2010). “Monstrous fairytales: towards an écriture queer”. Colloquy: text, theory, critique 20: 79–103.
  2. Balsamo, A. (1996). Technologies of the gendered body: reading cyborg women. Durham : Duke University Press.
  3. Bell, D. & Kennedy, B.M. (2000). eds. The cybercultures reader. London: New York: Routledge. Bobby, S.R. (2009). ed. Fairy tales reimagined: essays on new retellings. Kindle Edition. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co.
  4. Bottigheimer, R. B. (2009). Fairy tales: a new history. Excelsior Editions, State Univ. of New York Press. Clarke, B. & Rossini, M. (2017). The Cambridge companion to literature and the posthuman. Kindle Edition. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316091227.
  5. Franchi, S. & Güzeldere, G. (2005). eds. Mechanical bodies, computational minds: artificial intelligence from automata to cyborgs? Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

İkinci Bir Dil Olarak İngilizce

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Rasheed Ghassan Abed Bu kişi benim
Türkiye

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Mart 2020

Gönderilme Tarihi

21 Ocak 2020

Kabul Tarihi

15 Mart 2020

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2020 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 1

Kaynak Göster

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