Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale

Contemporary Adaptations Across Cultures

Edited by Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi

Contributions by Cristina Bacchilega, Shuli Barzilai, Michael Brodski, Luciana Cardi, Lucy Fraser, ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui, Roxane Hughes, Natsumi Ikoma, Vanessa Joosen, Daniela Kato, Hatsue Nakawaki, Masafumi Monden, Nieves Moreno Redondo, Mayako Murai, Katsuhiko Suganuma and Aleksandra Szugajew

Published by: Wayne State University Press

Series: Series in Fairy-Tale Studies

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

432 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 × 22.00 mm, 39 full colour images

Paperback
9780814345368
Published: August 2020

£26.99

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Hardcover
9780814345351
Published: August 2020

£68.00

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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. Divided into three parts, the fourteen essays cover a range of materials from Hawaiian wonder tales to Japanese heroine tales to Spanish fairy-tale film adaptation. Chapters include an invitation from Cristina Bacchilega to explore the possibilities related to the uncanny processes of both disorientation and re-orientation taking place in the "journeys" of wonder tales across multiple media and cultures. Aleksandra Szugajew's chapter outlines the strategies adopted by recent Hollywood live-action fairy-tale films to attract adult audiences and reveals how this new genre offers a form of global entertainment and a forum that invites reflection on various social and cultural issues in today's globalizing world. Katsuhiko Suganuma draws on queer theory and popular musicology to analyze the fairy-tale intertexts in the works of the Japanese all-female band Princess Princess and demonstrate that popular music can be a medium through which the queer potential of ostensibly heteronormative traditional fairy tales may emerge. Daniela Kato's chapter explores the ecological dimensions of Carter's literary fairy tale and offers an ecofeminist interpretation of a fairy-tale forest as a borderland that lies beyond the nature-culture dichotomy.

Readers will find inspiration and new directions in the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches to fairy tales provided by Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale.