Dr Shabnam Ahsan

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Dr Shabnam Ahsan

@thebrownbronte

Writing | Reading | @uniofherts | Literature | Postcolonialism | Folklore | Nation & Identity | Tell me all the fairytales. 🇬🇧🇧🇩

Yorkshire, UK Katılım Ekim 2019
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Banyan trees start life as vampiric vines that strangle & suffocate the host trees they grow over. With distinctive aerial roots, they often figure in S. Asian folklore as dwelling-places for spirits/ghosts. 🎨: Warwick Goble #botanicalgothic #FolkloreFriday
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Some of the Persian tulips illustrated by William Morris (1834–1896), inspired by Iranian motifs--courtesy of @V_and_A. Morris was a British textile designer, painter and poet, and an alumnus of @ExeterCollegeOx. He partially translated Ferdowsi's epic poem Shahnameh into English
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LITERATURE RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES Join me for a free online talk on 25 March at 1.30 ‘The Luck of the Ningyō: Japanese human-fish Yokai and the rise of the fake museum mermaid’ Abstract and joining instructions on the @OGOMProject blog below. All welcome. opengravesopenminds.com/events/literat…
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Persian fairies influenced European & S. Asian fairylore: Persian Peri, S. Asian Pari, & European fairies are beautiful, often winged, & inhabit a hidden realm. Morally complex, their power can be contained or countered with cold iron. #FolkloreSunday
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@DrSamGeorge1 Loved Jim Henson's adaptation of this as a child - visually grotesque, but its message about unconditional love was really quite beautiful and sad, and elicited sympathy for the way Hans was shunned and ridiculed for being different.
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A WERE HEDGEHOG appears in a story recorded by the Brothers Grimm. A farmer's wife gives birth to a hedgehog boy and they give him a nest of straw behind the stove. He later rides off on a cockerel to find his fortune 🎨H.G. Ford 'The Green Fairy Book', 1892 #FairyTaleTuesday
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I do *not* want an AI "summary" of an email, or a book, or a life. I do not want an AI summary of a winter sky, or my father's hands, or the hope in my child's eyes. I do not want an AI summary of the human heart, or the first little shiver of lust, or the long good work of love.
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@madeehahwrites C19th - Mary Shelley is trending again rn. Dickens; Wilkie Collins (spooky mysteries w lots of twists esp. The Woman in White). C20th classics - Virginia Woolf (her essays and fiction have v. different prose styles). Anything by Daphne du Maurier 👌🏽
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Norse mythology refers to both "light elves" and "dark elves" which further complicates attempts to box them in human ethnic groups. Seen as outsiders, then, it makes little sense for Santa's elves NOT to be depicted in racially/ethnically diverse ways. /END
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In Scandinavian folklore other magical beings like trolls and giants are also thought to represent ethnic Others like Sámi and Finn peoples. 4/ 🎨: John Bauer, 1915
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🧵: What race are Santa's elves? The C19th folklorist Laurence Gomme thought magical beings like elves were actually indigenous races who had been conquered. 1/
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