Papers by Corinna B Percy
zel" featured in this article all give Rapunzel's hair a special quality other than its beauty, a... more zel" featured in this article all give Rapunzel's hair a special quality other than its beauty, a quality that not only aids her in becoming a self-rescuer, but also gives her the agency to fully participate in and embrace her coming of age. Female empowerment is closely linked to the coming-of-age process experienced by Rapunzel, as each tale begins with Rapunzel as a young girl and ends with her development into a woman. Thus, it makes sense to view these tales through the lens of Lincoln's coming-of-age theory, which he outlines in his anthropological study, Emerging from the Chrysalis (1981). He includes three stages in a female's rite of passage: confinement, metamorphosis, and reemergence. The Rapunzels in these retellings experience similar stages, as each Rapunzel is confined in a tower, undergoes metamorphosis as she encounters dangers and adventures, and ultimately reemerges as a self-aware young woman. These retellings of the Rapunzel story, unlike the Grimms' version, imbue the main character with agency, manifested in her hair, that allows her to successfully navigate the comingof-age process through which she learns to make her own decisions about performing expected gender roles and establishes her own identity. The Stages of Coming of Age Lincoln studied and described women's initiation rites among four different people groups-the Tiyyar from the southwestern tip of India, the Navajo from the southwestern United States, the Tiv from West Africa, and the Tukuna from the northwest Amazon. Though
The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2020
Yuki Fumino's currently ongoing series, I Hear the Sunspot, is a manga that provides a voice for ... more Yuki Fumino's currently ongoing series, I Hear the Sunspot, is a manga that provides a voice for those on the "outside" of society as it examines Japanese cultural attitudes toward both disability and homosexuality. Employing a range of characters, the manga confronts the problem of compulsory able-bodiedness and the need for disabled persons to fill prescribed roles, the process of moving away from self-isolation to self-acceptance, and the debate between living insularly within a disabled community or community building between disabled and nondisabled communities. Fumino uses the figure of Kohei to represent the struggles of self-acceptance as it relates to intersectional queer and disabled identities, and the figure of Taichi to represent the 'bridge' of community building as a catalyst to this self-acceptance in a society where both disabled and queer communities are seen as outsiders.
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Papers by Corinna B Percy