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Informationen zum Autor Cristina Bacchilega is professor of English at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, where she teaches fairy tales and their adaptations, folklore and literature, and cultural studies. With Marie Alohalani Brown, she co-edited the Penguin Book of Mermaids, and with Anne Duggan, she co-edits Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies Klappentext Fairy-tale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture! but readers and scholars alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder! accomplished fairy-tale scholar Cristina Bacchilega traces what she terms a "fairy-tale web" of multivocal influences in modern adaptations! asking how tales have been changed by and for the early twenty-first century. Dealing mainly with literary and cinematic adaptations for adults and young adults! Bacchilega investigates the linked and yet divergent social projects these fairy tales imagine! their participation and competition in multiple genre and media systems! and their relation to a politics of wonder that contests a naturalized hierarchy of Euro-American literary fairy tale over folktale and other wonder genres. Zusammenfassung Investigates early twenty-first-century fairy-tale transformations to explore the politics and poetics of adaptation.
