Word: tatar
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...book was not read to pieces, it was looked to pieces,” Tatar explains. It’s written in German, and when she first owned it as a child, she couldn’t read the language...
...Grimms as these cultural icons,” Tatar says. “A sort of reverent attitude, especially in Germany, that they could do no wrong. I want to point out that we have to question these stories and think about them even as we keep retelling them...
...Tatar wants her readers to remember that “the versions of the Grimms aren’t necessarily our versions.” People’s eyes are gouged out. Parents attempt to eat their children. Cinderella’s stepsisters cut off their toes and heels to fit into the glass slipper...
...Tatar says that parents have the right to decide what aspects of the stories are appropriate. “If you don’t want to read your children about the bloody heel, don’t do it!” she insists, and suggests they can get to it when they’re older...
...fact through the Brothers Grimm that Tatar first became interested in the study of fairy tales. In her office she has a volume of their stories barely kept together with rubber bands and duct tape...