Essays on Once Upon a Time

The essay “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer, is a moral story about the racism in South Africa that occurs between the wealthy and the poor. Gordimer explains this story came about when someone wrote her and said that “every writer ought to write...

Fairy tales have evolved over time- narratives that were originally full of harrowing violence have been adapted into bedtime stories. As time goes on, more and more versions of each tale appear, in print or else on film. But why do we bother using the...

A bedtime story is a story, you tell a child, before they go to bed. It can be scary, exciting or funny. Often when you tell a bedtime story, the child falls asleep or gets sleepy. I´m going to tell you a story about a...

Throughout Nadine Gordimer’s short stories published in 1989, titled Jump and Other Stories, the South African author constantly combats the status quo with her controversially poignant content. In one of the short stories, Once Upon a Time, the narrator tells herself a bedtime story about...

Lagan – Once Upon a Time in India was released in 2001 directed by Ashutosh Gowariker and has prominent movie stars such as Amir Khan and Gracy Singh. This movie presents not only various postcolonial discourses but it also sheds light on cultural discourse, religious...