Date of Award
Spring 4-20-2012
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
First Thesis Reader
Jacqueline Wernimont
Second Thesis Reader
Warren Liu
Rights Information
© 2012 Tori Shereen Mirsadjadi
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Abstract
The way Gail Carson Levine’s Ella Enchanted simultaneously conforms to its late-20th-century American standards and rebels against its Cinderella origins is analyzed in this thesis. As an analysis of a piece of literature written for children, the thesis works to defend the notion that playful literature produces a serious dialogue with its readers, and that young female readers are a particularly apropos group for the dialogue about hegemony that Ella Enchanted allows.
Recommended Citation
Mirsadjadi, Tori Shereen, "Unbreakable Glass Slippers: Hegemony in Ella Enchanted" (2012). Scripps Senior Theses. Paper 40.
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/40