1971: Transformations

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"1971: Transformations" is a poetry collection by Anne Sexton that reimagines and darkly retells Grimm fairy tales through a confessional, feminist lens.

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Anne Sexton
basedOn Brothers Grimm fairy tales
surface form: Grimm fairy tales
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Anne Sexton
genre confessional poetry
fairy-tale retellings
feminist literature
poetry
hasPerspective confessional lens
feminist lens
hasSubject Briar Rose
Cinderella (fairy tale)
surface form: Cinderella

Hansel & Gretel
surface form: Hansel and Gretel

Little Red Riding Hood
Rapunzel
Rumpelstiltskin
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White
The Frog Prince
influencedBy Brothers Grimm fairy tales
surface form: Grimms' Fairy Tales
language English
literaryForm narrative poems
literaryMovement confessional poetry movement
literaryStyle colloquial
ironic
satirical
mainTheme body and sexuality
dark reimagining of traditional narratives
death and violence
feminist reinterpretation of fairy tales
gender roles
patriarchy
psychological trauma
notableFor confessional elements drawn from Anne Sexton’s life
darkly comic tone
feminist reinterpretation of Grimm tales
use of contemporary references in fairy-tale settings
period 20th-century American literature
publicationYear 1971
relatedWork Live or Die
To Bedlam and Part Way Back
tone blackly humorous
dark
subversive

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Anne Sexton publicationDateOfWork 1971: Transformations