The presence of the traditional fairy tale in the work of Carmen Martín Gaite: Little Red Riding Hood in Manhattan and Two Wonderful Tales
Abstract
The richness of Carmen Martín Gaite's work means that it encompasses various genres and systems, including children's and young adult literature, in the case of Little Red Riding Hood in Manhattan and Two Wonderful Tales. However, based on the author's own reticence about such labels, and in the light of recent studies, we can say that these are works for all types of readers or crossovers. In both cases, we find texts that clearly draw from traditional storytelling, also falsely associated with children's literature. The following study, by means of comparative analysis, shows which elements of the traditional tale remain in each of the works and in what way the author has used a genre as versatile as the traditional tale to express the concerns of her own time and her own literature.
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