"these intrepid heroes show the holes in systems of domination through which small people can slip to liberate themselves and gain their ends. Their goals are socialist and utopian in nature in that they assert the potential for humanity to be on it's own, nor dependent on a system, on phantom gods. The individual moves into his or her own, undergoing metamorphosis while gaining strength from the gifts of other beings. The building of the self and the other world is essentially a communal project."
Jack Zipes. Breaking the Magic Spell:
Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales (rev. ed.). New York: Routledge, 2002, 169.
I feel like shouting hurrah at the end of that...so HURRAH!
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