Alice's Wonderland: Performances of Identity

The volume presents a journey into Alice's Wonderland as a world of morphing possibilities, where she learns to define her identity and at the same time presents critical insights into her own cultural milieu. It focuses on Carroll's text as well as later adaptations and brings to expression contemporary reverberations of Victorian solicitations.

The volume presents a journey into Alice's Wonderland as a world of morphing possibilities. In a constant dialogue with Victorian codifications, Alice learns to define her identity and at the same time presents critical insights into her own cultural milieu. Alice appears to be on the threshold upon different systems of reference which she actively investigates through a specific involvement with Victorian institutions such as the family, the law and education. The analysis focusses in particular on her quest for her own identity, developed throughout Carroll's text as well as in later adaptations, and from the perspective of food studies. It combines Alice's narrative and theatrical/balletic body in a new experience of Wonderland as a cultural palimpsest that brings to expression contemporary reverberations of Victorian solicitations. The volume highlights the power of Carroll's text which already prefigures its ever renewing cultural impact as a template for storytelling.

Autorentext

Sidia Fiorato is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Verona. Her fields of research include Children's literature, the Fairy Tale, Law Literature and Culture, and Intermediality.

Inhalt

Introduction

Part 1: A Performance of Narrative Frames and Stories
Chapter 1: Alice and Wonder
Chapter 2: Food in Wonderland
Chapter 3: Alice in Wonderlaw

Part 2: Adaptations
Chapter 4: Coraline. A Postmodern Alice
Chapter 5: Then She Fell: Alice and Immersive Wonderland

Part 3: Literature and Dance: Imagination, Intermediality and the Body
Chapter 6: Alice into Dance Wonderland

Conclusions
References
Index