Starting us off is Indu Ohri with Changed by constant retellings: Carnival Row& #39;s recirculation of fairy and colonoist narrativee
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Indu is going to focus on the third episode of the series, & #39;Kingdoms of the Moon& #39;. It has flashbacks to the Burgue/Pact war, and features the fairy homeland, based off Tir-na-nog Irish myths
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This rewrites the Victorian fairy-human romance, and colonial narrative. The intertextuality of the fairy princess tale with the & #39;real world& #39; romance between Philo and Vignette is a thread throughout the series
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The relocation of the fairy library to The Burgue echoes the ideas of theft with The Elgin Marbles. Vignette& #39;s role of library guardian has been stolen from her, flashbacks depict the trauma of colonisation
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