Mother as Donor, Hero or Villain: New Sides of the Mother's Image in Sergey Sedov's "Fairy Tales about Mums"

Autor/inn/en	Gubaidullina, Anastasia N.; Gorenintseva, Valentina N.
Titel	Mother as Donor, Hero or Villain: New Sides of the Mother's Image in Sergey Sedov's "Fairy Tales about Mums"
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 48 (2017) 3, S.201-213 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-016-9273-7
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Fairy Tales; Childrens Literature; Russian Literature; Parent Role; Sex Stereotypes; Folk Culture + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Fairy tale; Fairytale; Fairytales; Fairy-tale; Fairy-tales; Märchen; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Parental role; Elternrolle
Abstract	A new model of society in post-Soviet Russia introduced novel family patterns to everyday life as well as to children's literature, with traditional parent and children's functions becoming subject to rethinking. The tendency to reconsider parental functions can be observed in texts from different genres, but it appears most overtly in modern fairy tales which, on the one hand, link modernity with the national folkloric code but, on the other, aim to overcome the code. Unlike many contemporary Russian authors for children, who leave little narrative space for parents, Sergey Sedov makes the mother central to his "Fairy Tales About Mums." He describes various situations in which this figure regains the depth and comprehensiveness of a Jungian Great Mother Archetype. The author combines different fairy tales, cultural stereotypes and literary themes to create the image of a new mother who possesses various roles, some of which place her in opposition to the gender stereotype of patriarchal Russian folklore. This article uses structural, typological and motive methods of analysis to trace the transformation of the mother's image from the traditional folktale canon to determine its activity-related and axiological aspects and to analyse various manifestations of the mother in terms of the tales' semantic and aesthetic integrity. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01