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The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales provides a comprehensive guide to fairy tales across literatures and cultures. It offers an expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, literary studies, and cultural studies.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I - History and Global Formations of the Canon 1. North American Traditions: Transforming the Canon by Anthologizing and Adapting Indigenous and Immigrant Tales 2. South American Fairy-Tale Traditions: Little Red Riding Hood in Alternative Itineraries 3. Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Puerto Rico (1914-1915): Jíbaro Rural Oral Fairy Tales 4. Remaking the Nine-Tailed Fox in Korean Fairy-Tale Television: Narrative, Gender, and Remediation 5. Decolonizing Through
Desi Genres: Trans-generic Approaches to South Asian Fairy Tales 6. Turkish and Middle Eastern Folktales and Fairy Tales 7. The
Arabian Nights: Medieval Magic Tales and Hann¿ Diy¿b's Fairy Tales 8. Hybridizing Nature in Colonial Australian and New Zealand Fairy Tales, 1891-1930 9. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations: Folk and Fairy Tales in Central and Eastern Europe Slavic Countries
Part II - Theories and Approaches 10. A Historicist Approach to the Evolution of Fairy Tales 11. Thinking with Fairy Tales: Cognitive Approaches to the Genre 12. Psychological and Therapeutic Approaches to the Fairy Tale 13. Multispecies Fairy-Tale Studies 14. A Question of Architecture: Structuralist, Formalist, and Postmodern Approaches to Fairy Tales 15. Postcolonial Tricksters: African Diasporic Folklore in Contemporary Culture 16. Fairy Tales and Their Translatedness 17. Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory 18. Mutation, Mutilation, Metamorphosis, Monstrosity: A Cripistemological Analysis of Disability and Difference in Old and New Fairy Tales
Part III - Art Forms and Genre Intersections 19. Literary Fairy Tales: Constructed Hybrids 20. Fairy Tales as Children's and Young Adult Literature 21. Twenty-First Century Fairy-Tale Adaptations on Page and Screen 22. Fairy-Tale Pastiche: Nostalgia and Whimsy at Work in ABC's
Once Upon a Time and Disney's
Wish 23. Images of the Imaginary: Fairy-Tale Illustration and the Visual Arts 24. Manga and Anime 25. Sea Foam and Speech Bubbles: Fairy Tales, Comics, and Making Change Through Creative Scholarship 26. Unburied Moons: Fairy-tale Artivism in the Western and Southern European Traditions 27. Abject Bodies in Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales
Part IV - Fairy-Tale Practices and Controversies 28. Stone Soup: Controversies Over Authenticity 29. The Transcultural Texts of (Post-)Colonial Folklore Collections: Examples from the Francophone World 30. Feminist Controversies: Examining Fairy-Tale Retellings in the Context of Postfeminism. A Case of Young Adult Literature 31. Canon Controversies 32. "But in the Disney version...": Fairy Tales, Authenticity and Controversy 33. The Fairy-Tale Web 34. Colonialist and Racist Stereotyping in (Re)Translating and Illustrating: An Analysis of
The Five Chinese Brothers 35. Marvelous Tales from Folks to Folks: Seeking What is Just from and with the Unconsidered
