The Fairy Tale World is a definitive volume on this ever-evolving field. The book draws on recent critical attention, contesting romantic ideas about timeless tales of good and evil, and arguing that fairy tales are culturally astute narratives that reflect the historical and material circumstances of the societies in which they are produced. The Fairy Tale World takes a uniquely global perspective and broadens the international, cultural, and critical scope of fairy-tale studies. Throughout the five parts, the volume challenges the previously Eurocentric focus of fairy-tale studies, with contributors looking at:
• the contrast between traditional, canonical fairy tales and more modern reinterpretations;
• responses to the fairy tale around the world, including works from every continent;
• applications of the fairy tale in diverse media, from oral tradition to the commercialized films of Hollywood and Bollywood;
• debates concerning the global and local ownership of fairy tales, and the impact the digital age and an exponentially globalized world have on traditional narratives;
• the fairy tale as told through art, dance, theatre, fan fiction, and film.
This volume brings together a selection of the most respected voices in the field, offering ground-breaking analysis of the fairy tale in relation to ethnicity, colonialism, feminism, disability, sexuality, the environment, and class. An indispensable resource for students and scholars alike, The Fairy Tale World seeks to discover how such a traditional area of literature has remained so enduringly relevant in the modern world.
Introduction: The Fairy Tale and the World
Andrew Teverson
Part 1: The Formation of The Canon
1. Global or Local? Where Do Fairy Tales Belong?
Donald Haase
2. ‘Decolonizing’ The Canon: Critical Challenges to Eurocentrism
Cristina Bacchilega
3. The Middle Eastern World’s Contribution to Fairy-Tale History
Ulrich Marzolph
4. The Formation of the Literary Fairy Tale in Early Modern Italy: 1550-1636
Nancy L. Canepa
5. Social Change and the Development of the Fairy Tale in France: 1690-1799
Christine A. Jones
6. National/International/Transnational: The Brothers Grimm And Their Fairy Tales
Maria Tatar
7. By Forgotten Hands: The Role of Translation in the Emergence of the Fairy Tale
Gillian Lathey
Part II: Africa And The Caribbean
8. Fairy Tale in Africa: A Contrast of Centuries
Ruth Finnegan
9. Narratives of the Southwest Indian Ocean: Commonalities and Localizations
Lee Haring
10. Fairy Tales and Folklore in South Africa
Nadia van der Westhuizen
11. Strangers and Defiant Maids: Empire and the African Folk Narrative
Andrew Teverson
12. West African Magical Realism Among the Wonder Genres
Kim Anderson Sasser
13. Francophone Fairy Tales in West Africa and the Caribbean: Colonizing and Reclaiming Tradition
Lewis C. Seifert
14. This is Not a Fairy Tale: Anansi and the Web of Narrative Power
Emily Zobel Marshall
15. Decolonizing the Curriculum: African Fairy Tales and Literacies
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Part III: The Americas
16. Myths and Folktales in Latin America
John Bierhorst
17. The Politics and Poetics of Märchen in Hawaiian-Language Newspapers
Marie Alohalani Brown
18. The American Dream: Walt Disney’s Fairy Tales
Tracey Mollet
19. African-American Adaptations of Fairy Tales
Neal A. Lester
20. Sexes, Sexualities, and Gender in Cinematic North and South American Fairy Tales: Transforming Cinderellas
Pauline Greenhill
21. Gender, Sexuality and the Fairy Tale in Contemporary American Literature
Jeana Jorgensen
22. Fairy Tales and Digital Culture
Brittany Warman
23. Fairy Tale, Fan Fiction, and Popular Media
Anne Kustritz
Part IV: Asia and Australasia
24. Fairy-Tale Worlds of South Asia
Sadhana Naithani
25. Lovely Fairies and Crafty Ghosts in Indian Tales
Pamela Lothspeich
26. Fairy Tale in the Bollywood Film
Vijay Mishra
27. Fairy Tales in China: An Ongoing Evolution
Juwen Zhang
28. The Fairy Tale in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Art
Mayako Murai
29. Memory, Trauma and History: Fairy-Tale Film in Korea
Sung-Ae Lee
30. Fairies in a Strange Land: Colonization, Migration, and the Invention of the Australian Fairy Tale
Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario
31. Renegotiating ‘Once Upon a Time’: Fairy Tales in Contemporary Australian Writing
Danielle Wood
Part V: Europe
32. The European Sources of the Fairy Tale: A Case Study of ATU 171, "The Three Bears"
Rose Williamson
33. "No Fairy Tales of Their Own?": The English and the Fairy Tale from Thoms to Jacobs
Jonathan Rope
34. Fairy Tales as Children’s Literature in The Netherlands And Flanders
Vanessa Joosen
35. Eco-Critical Perspectives: Nature and the Supernatural in the Cinderella Cycle
Nicole A. Thesz
36. Tales Retold: Fairy Tales in Contemporary European Visual Art
Sarah Bonner
37. New Materialism and Contemporary Fairy-Tale Fiction
Amy Greenhough
38. Of Genres and Geopolitics: the European Fairy Tale and the Global Novel
Kimberly J. Lau
Biography
Andrew Teverson is Professor of English and Head of the School of Arts, Culture and Communication at Kingston University, UK.
