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      • Kissing the Witch (or Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins) is a collection of interconnected fictional short stories written by Irish-Canadian Emma Donoghue. Each of the thirteen stories in the collection is an adaptation of a well-known European fairy tale, with several tales featuring feminist and queer themes.
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  2. Kissing the Witch (or Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins) is a collection of interconnected fictional short stories written by Irish-Canadian Emma Donoghue. Each of the thirteen stories in the collection is an adaptation of a well-known European fairy tale, with several tales featuring feminist and queer themes.

  3. Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (UK title, Kissing the Witch) (New York: Joanna Cotler Books, 1997), my third book of fiction and first story collection, is a sequence of thirteen re-imagined fairytales, inspired by traditional European sources (Brothers Grimm, Perrault, Hans Anderson).

  4. Ultimately, Kissing the Witch is a celebration of female resilience and agency. The characters, despite their struggles and setbacks, take control of their own destinies. They reject passivity and victimhood, choosing instead to shape their own narratives.

  5. Feb 10, 2013 · The readers are kept interested because they want to learn more about the character and understand why they have become a witch, a fairy Godmother or how they came to live a secluded life in a cave. The thing that many readers have found particularly special about Kissing the Witch , is that everything is told from the female perspective.

  6. Feb 27, 1999 · Kissing the Witch. Emma Donoghue. Pan Macmillan, Jul 4, 2013 - Fiction - 256 pages. Fairytales with a twist from the Man Booker and Orange prize-shortlisted author of Room. In Kissing the...

    • Emma Donoghue
    • Pan Macmillan, 2013
    • 1447248147, 9781447248149
    • Kissing the Witch
  7. Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue. Kissing the Witch is absolutely beautiful. You can't go wrong with haunting language and such bewitching storytelling befitting a fairy tale storybook. It helps that these retellings are wonderfully sapphic wink wink.

  8. Jun 25, 2000 · Kissing the Witch (2000). My third full-length play, an adaptation of five of the thirteen stories from my fairy-tale book of the same name (1997), was commissioned by San Francisco's Magic Theatre. Cast: three women, one man.

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