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Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today, however, fairy tales are far from marvelous-in the hands of Hollywood, they have been stripped of their power, offering little but formulaic narratives and tame surprises. If we want to rediscover the power of fairy tales-as Armando Maggi thinks we should-we need to discover a new mythic lens, a new way of approaching and understanding, and thus re-creating, the transformative potential of these stories. In Preserving the Spell, Maggi argues that the first step is to understand the history of the various traditions of oral and written narrative that together created the fairy tales we know today. He begins his exploration with the ur-text of European fairy tales, Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, then traces its path through later Italian, French, English, and German traditions, with particular emphasis on the Grimm Brothers' adaptations of the tales, which are included in the first-ever English translation in an appendix. Carrying his story into the twentieth century, Maggi mounts a powerful argument for freeing fairy tales from their bland contemporary forms, and reinvigorating our belief that we still can find new, powerfully transformative ways of telling these stories.

Fairy tales --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Basile, Giambattista, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- basile, fairy tale, folklore, tradition, narrative, literature, magic, mythology, myth, grimm brothers, adaptation, france, italy, germany, cupid and psyche, king cardiddu, orpheus, romanticism, brentano, beauty, marvel, postmodernism, disney, beasts of the southern wild, nonfiction, apuleius, robert coover, memoir, trauma, archetype, film, popular culture, history.

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Argues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss In Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, cultural critic and historian Tavia Nyong'o surveys the conditions of contemporary black artistic production in the era of post-blackness. Moving fluidly between the insurgent art of the 1960's and the intersectional activism of the present day, Afro-Fabulations challenges genealogies of blackness that ignore its creative capacity to exceed conditions of traumatic loss, social death, and archival erasure. If black survival in an anti-black world often feels like a race against time, Afro-Fabulations looks to the modes of memory and imagination through which a queer and black polytemporality is invented and sustained. Moving past the antirelational debates in queer theory, Nyong'o posits queerness as "angular sociality," drawing upon queer of color critique in order to name the gate and rhythm of black social life as it moves in and out of step with itself. He takes up a broad range of sites of analysis, from speculative fiction to performance art, from artificial intelligence to Blaxploitation cinema. Reading the archive of violence and trauma against the grain, Afro-Fabulations summons the poetic powers of queer world-making that have always been immanent to the fight and play of black life

Homosexuality in the theater --- Gays in the performing arts --- African Americans in the performing arts. --- American drama --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- United States. --- Adrian Piper. --- African diaspora. --- Anthropocene. --- Beasts of the Southern Wild. --- Galindo, Regina José. --- Geo Wyeth. --- Gilles Deleuze. --- Harrell, Trajal. --- Jason Holliday. --- Jason and Shirley. --- Kara Walker. --- Manderlay. --- Mandingo. --- Melvin van Peebles. --- Paris Is Burning. --- Portrait of Jason. --- Shirley Clarke. --- Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. --- The Einstein Intersection. --- The Flawless Mother Sabrina. --- The Queen. --- Wu Tsang. --- aesthetics. --- afrofuturism. --- antinormativity. --- archives. --- artificial intelligence. --- black art. --- black code studies. --- black performance. --- black queer aesthetics. --- black studies. --- blaxploitation. --- brownness. --- chusmeria. --- climate change. --- critical ethnic studies. --- cultural theory. --- ecology. --- fabulation. --- femicide. --- film studies. --- funk. --- indigenous studies. --- mass incarceration. --- performance art. --- performance. --- post-humanism. --- postmodern dance. --- psychoanalysis. --- public art. --- queer dance. --- queer studies. --- queer temporality. --- queer theory. --- science fiction. --- slavery. --- social death. --- transgender studies. --- transhumanism. --- wildness. --- Gay people in the performing arts