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The Blue Fairy and Wendy : Incest, Sacrifice or Feminine Empowerment ?

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In Collodi’s Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) and Barrie’s Peter and Wendy (1911), little girls’ characters – the fairy and Wendy – do grow up, adopting the roles of ‘surrogate mothers’ for the heroes. Playing the mother to excess, they challenge gender hierarchy. It is therefore less a transgression of rules than it is a subversion of values. Disney’s Pinocchio (1940) and Peter Pan (1953) advocate order and obedience, thus doing away with the freedom of childhood. Garrone’s Pinocchio (2019) and Zeitlin’s Wendy (2020) mitigate gender stereotypes, but the disturbing ambivalence of the girls disappears, in favor of more univocal characters.
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hal-03011575 , version 1 (18-11-2020)

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Déborah Lévy-Bertherat. The Blue Fairy and Wendy : Incest, Sacrifice or Feminine Empowerment ?. Actes du colloque international : Transgression Vs Politically Correct in Children’s Literature, 2022. ⟨hal-03011575⟩
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