{"id":2614,"date":"2014-03-04T08:32:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2014-03-04T08:32:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:32:51","slug":"helen-oyeyemis-boy-snow-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2014\/03\/04\/helen-oyeyemis-boy-snow-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Oyeyemi&#8217;s Boy, Snow, Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2014\/03\/images.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2615\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2014\/03\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em>POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR<\/em><\/em> reviews <em>Boy, Snow, Bird<\/em>, a refashioning of <em>Snow White.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Set<em> in the 1950s, Oyeyemi\u2019s novel opens on the Lower East Side of New York City, with a young white woman named Boy Novak running away from her violent rat-catcher father. She soon meets a widower, a jewelry craftsman and former history professor named Arturo Whitman, in Flax Hill, Mass. She marries Whitman and becomes obsessed by her new stepdaughter, Snow. \u201cWhat was it about Snow?\u201d Boy asks herself. Oyeyemi paints Snow as half virtual, half corporeal: \u201cShe was poised and sympathetic, like a girl who\u2019d just come from the future but didn\u2019t want to brag about it.\u201d All seems well until Arturo and Boy have a daughter of their own, Bird, who is born undeniably \u201ccolored.\u201d Whitman\u2019s family members are light-skinned African-Americans who have been passing as white, and the revelation becomes a turning point. The Snow White bits take over, with the Wicked Stepmother and the mirror motifs, and the fairy tale rewrites itself in startling ways.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/02\/books\/review\/boy-snow-bird-by-helen-oyeyemi.html?_r=0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR reviews Boy, Snow, Bird, a refashioning of Snow White. Set in the 1950s, Oyeyemi\u2019s novel opens on the Lower East Side of New York City, with a young white woman named Boy Novak running away from her violent rat-catcher father. She soon meets a widower, a jewelry craftsman and former history professor named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}