Event overview
Jack Zipes, launches his new book, Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales, in conversation with Michael Rosen.
This event offers a wonderful opportunity to listen to world-renowned experts in the study, writing and translation of fairy tales, folk tales, and children’s literature.
Summary:
This talk launches Jack Zipes’ latest publication, Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales, published in the U.S. on 4 April 2023 and out in the UK on 30 May 2023. Jack 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: The Power of Political Fairy Tale, 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. Jack Zipes will be talking about the researching and writing of Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales and then be in conversation with Michael Rosen about the book.
Biographies:
Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his scholarly work, he is an active storyteller in public schools and has worked with children's theatres in Europe and the United States. Some of his publications include: The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre (2012), Grimm Legacies: The Magic Power of Fairy Tales (2014), and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales (2017), Zipes has published a new translation of Felix Salten’s The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest (2022) and Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales (2023).
Michael Rosen is one of Britain’s best loved writers and performance poets for children and adults. He is currently Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London where he co-devised and teaches critical approaches to reading on an MA in Children’s Literature, having done the same at Birkbeck, University of London. He was the Children’s Laureate from 2007-2009 and has published over 200 books for children and adults, including the recent Goldilocks and the Three Crocodiles (2022) and Getting Better (2023).
Jack Zipes’ and Michael Rosen's latest books will be on sale and there will be book signing at the event. This event is hosted by the Children's and YA Literature Research Forum and Centre for Language, Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London.
N.B This event has been updated to provide Jack Zipes with the opportunity to launch his new book 'Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales'. The event was originally publicised as 'How Walt Disney murdered Bambi'.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 16 May 2023 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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