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The Little Mermaid has always been a story about exclusion – and its author was an outsider

By Michelle Smith, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University

Disney’s new Black mermaid has been called ‘inauthentic’ – but fairy tales have always been repurposed across cultures. And Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid was different from Disney’s.

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