Medieval Fairies as Other- September 17, 2007 MacAllister Stone has been posting a series about the roles of the other in spec fic. You can find Part I Magical Negroes, expendable queers, and other well-worn tropes here, Part II here, and Part III, or, The Magical Other here. Part IV is likely to appear real soon now, but I wanted to pick up on two observations MacAllister makes that particularly intrigued me because they deal with the role of fairies as the other in medieval literature. It's something I've been thinking about quite a...http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/news/2007/09/medieval-fairies-as-other.html |