World Fantasy "Report"

[merriehaskell]

So, before I went to World Fantasy Con, I was like this:

OMG, WFC!

And after World Fantasy Con, I'm pretty much like this:

OMG, WFC! (and I'm tired)

I would tell you about all the huge-lots of people I saw, but you would probably be very bored by this unless you were one of them (or if you are secretcrush (ETA: Or secritcrush, even), I bet even then) and I would

Comments

[gillpolack]

"[I may be highly misconstruing this point, but it fascinated me as I understood it] D'Aulnoy and [the other major French court fairy tale writer... Beaumonde le Prince??] added fairies to the fairy tales. They were the feminists of their time, writing women who attract/pursue/catch a rich and powerful but simultaneously good and fair husband who will provide for his wife the space in her life to have her own agency. (Whoa.)"

Jack Zipes has written a bunch on this. You probably know his work - I just like reminding people :). I also need to update myself. I haven't read any for years.

[merriehaskell]

No, I don't, but I think I'm going to go read some of it. I've read a lot of fairy tales but very little critical analysis thereof.

[gillpolack]

Zipes is a good place to start then. (Can you tell I like his work :) )

[aj]

JEALOUS!!! And so glad you had a good time!

[merriehaskell]

:)

[txanne]

Yes--Robert Darnton wrote a really famous book that I read in grad school and immediately forgot the title of. It was really good, though!

Madame le Prince de Beaumont wrote La Belle et la Bête--yeah, Sherman speaks truth, as usual.

I don't recognize Bellebelle the French woman chevalier. Do you remember any other details? That's the kind of thing that I'd have noticed and remembered, but I guess it was too long ago. :-(

[merriehaskell]

No, I don't have anything else, and I'm not even SURE anything else was SAID at that point. It was kind of a muttery point, and my ears pricked up because the words were interesting. ;)

[txanne]

AHA! Phear mah googulage!

Belle-Belle. I'll let you look it up in the English version. :-) No wonder I didn't remember it--it's not medieval! What a relief.

[merriehaskell]

*points below* I beat you by a solid 2 minutes!

[sartorias]

Thank you for panel notes!

[merriehaskell]

Welcome!

[gwynnega]

Sounds awesome! I met so many great people at WFC last year. This book has some great info about those French feminist fairy tale writers Delia Sherman talked about.

[merriehaskell]

Ooh, thanks for the rec.