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Re-orienting the fairy tale : contemporary adaptations across cultures / edited by Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi.

Murai, Mayako, (editor.). Cardi, Luciana, (editor.).

Summary:

Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new approaches to the ever-expanding fairy-tale web in a global context with a special emphasis on non-Euro-American materials. Editors Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi bring together emerging and established researchers in various disciplines from around the world to decenter existing cultural and methodological assumptions underlying fairy-tale studies and suggest new avenues into the increasingly complex world of fairy-tale cultures today.

Record details

ISBN: 0814345360
ISBN: 9780814345368
ISBN: 9780814345351
ISBN: 0814345352
Physical Description: vi, 424 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I. Disorienting cultural assumptions -- Fairy Tales in site: wonders of disorientation, challenges of orientation / Cristina Bacchilega -- Moʻolelo Kamahaʻo 2.0: the art and politics of the modern Hawaiian wonder tale / kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui -- Re-orienting China and America: Yen-Shen: a Cinderella story from China and it's TV adaptation / Roxane Hughes -- Monstrous Marionette: the tale of a Japanese doll by Angela Carter / Natsumi Ikoma. Part II Exploring new uses -- Japanese heroine tales and the significance of storytelling in contemporary society / Hatsue Nakawaki -- Who's afraid of Derrida & Co.? Modern theory meets three little pigs in the classroom / Shuli Barzilai -- Adults reclaiming fairy tales through cinema: Popular fairy-tale movie adaptations from the past decade / Aleksandra Szugajew -- Trespassing the boundaries of fairy tales: Pablo Berger's silent film Snow White / Nives Moreno Redondo. Part III. Promoting alternative ethics and aesthetics -- Re-orienting the fairy tale, revising age? / Vanessa Joosen -- Re-orienting fairy-tale childhood: Child protagonists as critical signifiers of fairy-tale tropes in transitional contemporary cinema / Michael Brodski -- Alice on the edge: Girls culture and "Western" fairy tales in Japan / Lucy Fraser -- Magical bird maidens: reconsidering romantic fairy tales in Japanese popular culture / Masafumi Monden -- When princess)es) will sing: girls rock and alternative queer interpretations / Katsuhiko Suganuma -- The plantation, the garden, and the forest: biocultural borderlands in Angela Carter's "Penetrating to the heart of the forest" / Daniela Kato.