政治正确童话 (1994)

《政治正确童话》（英语：Politically Correct Bedtime Stories）是由美国作家詹姆士‧芬‧加纳于1994年所写的童话故事集。本书属讽刺文学，作者说明为了不让下一代受传统童话的不良文化内容影响，所以将童话重写，以符合现代的政治正确精神。

改写后的故事里，大量使用了政治正确的流行行话，刻意使用生硬的旁白与说教，融入许多现代的物品（如Spa、矿泉水、汽车等等），并常有大逆转的故事发展与角色变化。举例来说，小红帽中的樵夫，在故事中不被视为解救小红帽的英雄人物，而是一个性别主义与种族主义的闯入者；白雪公主中恶毒的继母变成了正派的人物，七矮人和白马王子则被描绘成沙文主义者。

《政治正确童话》是詹姆士‧芬‧加纳出版的第一份作品，在美国已经售出超过250万本，并翻译成超过20种语言。加纳之后也写了两本续作《在更加开明以前：更政治正确的睡前故事》（英语：Once upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories）与《政治正确节日故事：献给开明的圣诞季》（英语：Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For an Enlightened Yuletide Season），后者以同样讽刺的口吻，描述圣诞假期中的政治正确。1998年，这三本书被汇编成文集《政治正确：终极童话故事书》（英语：Politically Correct, the Ultimate Storybook）。目前，这几本书都已经绝版。

内容

改编的童话是大家耳熟能详的欧洲童话，如小红帽、三只小猪、白雪公主、哈姆林的吹笛手等，其中对于女性自主、动物权、职业跟个体差异等政治正确议题不正确的内容做了大幅的改写，另外诉讼和社会运动在这一本书中不断出现。

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times is a 1994 book written by American writer James Finn Garner, in which Garner satirizes the trend toward political correctness and censorship of children's literature, with an emphasis on humour and parody. The bulk of the book consists of fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Little Pigs and Snow White, rewritten so that they represent what a politically correct adult would consider a good and moral tale for children.

The revisions include extensive usage of politically correct buzzwords (and parodies thereof), deliberately stiff moralizing dialogue and narration, inclusion of modern concepts and objects (such as health spas, mineral water, and automobiles), and often feature a plot twist that reverses the roles of the heroes and villains of the story (for example, the woodsman in Little Red Riding Hood is seen by Red Riding Hood not as a heroic saviour but as a "sexist" and "speciesist" interloper, and Snow White's evil stepmother ends up with a positive portrayal while the prince and the seven dwarves are portrayed as chauvinistic).

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories was Garner's first published book (or, in the words of his similarly satirical biography blurb from the book, "his first processed tree carcass"). More than 2.5 million copies have been sold in the United States and it has since been translated into 20 languages. Garner wrote two follow-up books: Once upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories and Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For an Enlightened Yuletide Season, the latter book satirizing political correctness during the Christmas holiday season. In 1998, the three books were compiled into an omnibus collection called Politically Correct: The Ultimate Storybook. All editions of the Politically Correct titles are currently out of print.

In 2018, Garner released "Politically Correct Pinocchio".

Stories

The following is a listing of the stories in the order they appear in the book.

Little Red Riding Hood

Based on the popular fairy tale of the same name, this parody includes as its main themes mocking the idea of anti-"speciesism" and the more radical branches and concepts of feminism (such as using the spelling "womyn" instead of "women" throughout, a pattern that is repeated in other stories in the book), and is one of the several stories in which the ending is completely altered from the original fairy tale.

The woodsman (who saves Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother in the most well-known versions of the tale) ends up beheaded by the grandmother, who leaps from the wolf's mouth of her own accord after a "stirring" moralizing speech from Red, who states that womyn and wolves can solve their own problems without a man's interference. This comes after, of course, Red Riding Hood has labeled him as "sexist" and "speciesist" for deciding to try to save Red Riding Hood by killing the wolf. The wolf, Red Riding Hood, and her grandmother then form an "alternative household" together.

The Emperor's New Clothes

This is a parody of the eponymous fairy tale. The well-known ending is not entirely changed, but the outcome of it and moral of the story nonetheless do.

The story ends with a pro-nudist twist, with the whole kingdom quickly deciding to adopt a clothing optional society.

The Three Little Pigs

A parody of the fairy tale of the same name, in it the wolves are greedy capitalists and the pigs are natives forced off their land who later become freedom fighters or "porcinistas", parodying the Nicaraguan party Sandinista National Liberation Front, or Sandinism. The Big Bad Wolf succumbs to a heart attack.

The "porcinistas" slaughter the wolves, take back their lands and found a utopian socialist democracy in its place, living happily ever after.

Rumpelstiltskin

A parody of the classic Rumpelstiltskin story.