Buried Treasures

Princeton UP

Buried TreasuresThe Power of Political Fairy Tales\nAuthor(s): Jack Zipes\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691244730, 978-0691244730\nSynopsis\nFascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy tales\n\nJack Zipes has spent decades as a scholarly scavenger, discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to these remarkable works and their authors. In Buried Treasures, Zipes describes his special passion for uncovering political fairy tales of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, offers fascinating profiles of more than a dozen of their writers and illustrators, and shows why they deserve greater attention and appreciation.\n\nThese writers and artists used their remarkable talents to confront political oppression and economic exploitation by creating alte.