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'''''The Blue Sword''''' ([[1982]]) is a [[fantasy]] novel by [[Robin McKinley]]. | '''''The Blue Sword''''' ([[1982]]) is a [[fantasy]] novel by [[Robin McKinley]], with a young female [[swordswoman]] as protagonist. | ||
Awards for ''The Blue Sword'': | Awards for ''The Blue Sword'': | ||
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;See also: | ;See also: | ||
*''[[The Hero and the Crown]]'', a prequel to this story | *''[[The Hero and the Crown]]'', a prequel to this story | ||
== Intertextuality == | |||
Robin McKinley states <ref>[http://www.robinmckinley.com/FAQ/FAQ02.html Robin McKinley FAQ], "What writers have been the greatest influence on you?"</ref>: | |||
:''Sword'''s immediate inspiration is Kipling's story ''The Man Who Would Be King'', as funnelled through John Huston's reading of it as a film, and crossbred with ''The Sheik''. Speaking of embarrassing and detestable stories. I read E M Hull's ''The Sheik'' because I thought it was going to be not only a wonderful old-fashioned British Empire adventure novel, like ''The Four Feathers'' or ''Beau Geste'', but a wonderful old-fashioned British Empire novel where an English woman rides off into the desert to have adventures. It isn't. It's about the punishment a woman who tries to do a man's job — i.e. ride off into the desert and have adventures — necessarily calls down upon herself and how if she's punished long and hard enough she'll learn to like it and embrace it as her fate as a woman. Oh yes, and the sheik himself turns out to be English — not a, you know, unsavoury foreigner — so it's okay that she falls in love with him after he's been raping her into submission for a while. | |||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Sword Wikipedia entry] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Sword Wikipedia entry] | ||
* [http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=11702 Review] by Jo Walton | |||
=== References === | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:00, 27 April 2010
The Blue Sword (1982) is a fantasy novel by Robin McKinley, with a young female swordswoman as protagonist.
Awards for The Blue Sword:
- Newbery Honor Book, 1983
- ALA Best Book for Young Adults, 1982
- ALA Notable Children's Book, 1982
- See also
- The Hero and the Crown, a prequel to this story
Intertextuality
Robin McKinley states [1]:
- Sword's immediate inspiration is Kipling's story The Man Who Would Be King, as funnelled through John Huston's reading of it as a film, and crossbred with The Sheik. Speaking of embarrassing and detestable stories. I read E M Hull's The Sheik because I thought it was going to be not only a wonderful old-fashioned British Empire adventure novel, like The Four Feathers or Beau Geste, but a wonderful old-fashioned British Empire novel where an English woman rides off into the desert to have adventures. It isn't. It's about the punishment a woman who tries to do a man's job — i.e. ride off into the desert and have adventures — necessarily calls down upon herself and how if she's punished long and hard enough she'll learn to like it and embrace it as her fate as a woman. Oh yes, and the sheik himself turns out to be English — not a, you know, unsavoury foreigner — so it's okay that she falls in love with him after he's been raping her into submission for a while.
External Links
- Wikipedia entry
- Review by Jo Walton
References
- ↑ Robin McKinley FAQ, "What writers have been the greatest influence on you?"
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