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Feb. 28th, 2012 11:19 amRight now, I'm a bit tired of fairytale retellings. Some of the new ones are brilliant and atmospheric and terrifying, but there are just too many of them.
I never thought I'd say this. I studied the things as an undergrad; I have a bit of a fairytale collection: I loved retellings. And a lot of these writers are friends and I totally adore their work. But it's as if every third Australian spec fic writer has to do it, right now, instantly. And they're good tellings and they're worth publishing... but I might take a break after this book and not read any for two years.
Someone ought to write a book on the greed for the fairytale in current Australian spec fic. Modern Australian fairytales and their relationships to kangaroos and gumtrees. Modern Australian fairytales and the addictive unease we still feel about being mostly-European. Modern Australian fairytales as an aceptable bridge between adult and young adult fiction. Modern Australian fairytalesand their relationship to postcolonialism.* There's a dwarfhoard of luminous examples that could be cited. Not by me, though, not the citation and not the book. I need to read something else for a bit.
*Although I still argue, on bad-mood-days that Australia was post-colonial without ever really having been colonial. The Wild Colonial Boy started off in America, I will half-lie, to prove my case.
I never thought I'd say this. I studied the things as an undergrad; I have a bit of a fairytale collection: I loved retellings. And a lot of these writers are friends and I totally adore their work. But it's as if every third Australian spec fic writer has to do it, right now, instantly. And they're good tellings and they're worth publishing... but I might take a break after this book and not read any for two years.
Someone ought to write a book on the greed for the fairytale in current Australian spec fic. Modern Australian fairytales and their relationships to kangaroos and gumtrees. Modern Australian fairytales and the addictive unease we still feel about being mostly-European. Modern Australian fairytales as an aceptable bridge between adult and young adult fiction. Modern Australian fairytalesand their relationship to postcolonialism.* There's a dwarfhoard of luminous examples that could be cited. Not by me, though, not the citation and not the book. I need to read something else for a bit.
*Although I still argue, on bad-mood-days that Australia was post-colonial without ever really having been colonial. The Wild Colonial Boy started off in America, I will half-lie, to prove my case.