Tales for Fairies: Tracing Queer Fairy-Tale Retellings

This scholarly account provides a trailblazing examination of how contemporary authors and artists have reclaimed the fairy tale for queer audiences. Díaz-Faes examines the queer threads in classic fairy tales—like those from Giambattista Basile, the Brothers Grimm, and Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy—while tracing how queer creators have reshaped these stories to reflect changing social and political realities from the 1990s to present.