Cultural Preservation and Metropolitan Transformation: Folk-Tale Traditions and The Queen of Paradise’s Garden, a Newfoundland Jack Tale

The Queen of Paradise’s Garden, adapted by Andy Jones and illustrated by Darka Erdelji, is a picture-book version of a Newfoundland Jack tale. The movement of the tale through a variety of forms—from oral tale to print transcription to puppet play to picture book—and its role as a cultural artifact...

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Main Author: Rosenberg, Teya
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Winnipeg 2013
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Online Access:http://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/196
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Summary:The Queen of Paradise’s Garden, adapted by Andy Jones and illustrated by Darka Erdelji, is a picture-book version of a Newfoundland Jack tale. The movement of the tale through a variety of forms—from oral tale to print transcription to puppet play to picture book—and its role as a cultural artifact echo the complexities of folk-tale transmission and transformation globally and historically. This article examines the ways in which the picture book and its antecedent versions are both of Newfoundland and of a larger and ongoing history of folk tales. DOI:10.1353/jeu.2013.0020