'Always the outlaw': the potential for subversion of the metanarrative in retellings of Robin Hood

Geoffrey Gates

doi:10.1007/s10583-005-9455-1

'Always the outlaw': the potential for subversion of the metanarrative in retellings of Robin Hood

Geoffrey Gates

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This paper examines six recent retellings of Robin Hood and concentrates on the representation of class, religion and gender in the texts. The question is asked: ‘what values do the texts implicitly or explicitly arm?’ The idea that Robin Hood retellings are systematic of a socially and politically conservative ideology is interrogated by considering moments of possible transgression of the universalistic metanarrative in the texts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	69-79
Number of pages	11
Journal	Children's Literature in Education
Volume	37
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-005-9455-1
Publication status	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Robin Hood
retellings
metanarrative
conservative values
transgression
gender

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