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This edited collection traces the evolution of writing, retelling, and critically reading children's and young adult tales over decades of cultural, social, and technological changes. Global contributions cover the increasingly diverse narratives found in children's literature, including how contemporary authors challenge traditional gender roles found in fairy tales through modern increasingly prevalent retellings. Chapters also consider the psychological impact of storytelling on children and how narratives can provide children with frameworks for understanding their emotions and experiences.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Rewriting, Retelling, and Adaptation.- Chapter 2: Saint-Exupéry s Memories and the Prince s Life on B612 in the Morgan Library Manuscript of The Little Prince.- Chapter 3: And the Story Lives On: Fred Fordham s Graphic Novel Adaptation of Harper Lee s To Kill a Mockingbird.- Chapter 4: Nikolai Nosov s Novella Vitya Maleyev in School and at Home: The Turn to Psychological Prose.- Chapter 5: An Educational Tale of the Japanese Child as a Western Ideal Entrusted to a Fox: Gon the Fox and the Sociology of Knowledge.- Chapter 06: From Srimad-Bhagavatam to Comics: Reading the Imprints of Lord Krsna in the Children World.- Part 2: Critical Reading: Theories and Interpretations.- Chapter 7: On Whangdoodles and Changing Times: Reading Scandal, Adaptation, and Identity Politics in the Works of Roald Dahl.- Chapter 8: Fairy Tales: A Psychoanalytic Review.- Chapter 9: The Labyrinth of Gender in The Twin Knights: Osamu Tezuka s World between Diversity and Limits.- Chapter 10: Little Red Riding Hood in the Mirror of Different Cultures and Time Periods.- Chapter 11: Magic Mirrors and Traumatic Chronotopes: Mizuki Tsujimura s and Erin Morgenstern s Contemporary Fairy Tales.
About the author
Bernard Montoneri is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He is the editor of the IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship. Dr Montoneri edited a book titled Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema in 2024.
Summary
This edited collection traces the evolution of writing, retelling, and critically reading children's and young adult tales over decades of cultural, social, and technological changes. Global contributions cover the increasingly diverse narratives found in children's literature, including how contemporary authors challenge traditional gender roles found in fairy tales through modern increasingly prevalent retellings. Chapters also consider the psychological impact of storytelling on children and how narratives can provide children with frameworks for understanding their emotions and experiences.
