Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic

Subverting Gender and Genre
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41898-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 129, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic, edited by Lydia Brugué and Auba Llompart, studies the impact of fairy tales on contemporary cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special emphasis on how literature and film are retelling classic fairy tales for modern audiences. We are currently witnessing a resurgence of fairy tales and fairy-tale characters and motifs in art and popular culture, as well as an increasing and renewed interest in reinventing and subverting these narratives to adapt them to the expectations and needs of the contemporary public. The collected essays also observe how the influence of academic disciplines like Gender Studies and current literary and cinematic trends play an important part in the revision of fairy-tale plots, characters and themes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brugué, Lydia

Llompart, Auba

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1
Contemporary Subversions of Gender in Fairy Tales

1 The Cursed Fairy: Broken Spells in Anne Sexton’s Poetry

Francisco José Cortés Vieco

2 Revisiting Fairy-Tale Land through a Gender Lens in Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch

María Amor Barros del Río

3 Fairy-Tale Reflections: Space and Women Host(age)s in Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird

Paula Barba Guerrero

4 Un-training the Imagination through Adaptation: an Exploration of Gender through Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the Spindle

Jade Lum

5 ‘There Are Always Choices. She Made One’: an Existentialist Approach to Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the Spindle

Alba Torres Álvarez

6 The British Empire’s Lost Slipper: Dangerous Irish Cinderellas

Abigail Heiniger

7 Cinderboy and Snow White and the Seven Aliens: Analysis of the Rewriting of Two Classic Tales and Their Translations to Spanish

Ana Pereira Rodríguez and Lourdes Lorenzo García

8 Resistance and Revolt: Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty Re-Viewed

Sarah Bonner

9 Empowered Fairy-Tale Heroines Reinvent Happily-Ever-After

Lisa L. Ortiz and Sheila M. Rucki

10 The Strongest of the Fairies: Reworking Gender and Villainy in Walt Disney’s Maleficent

Lydia Brugué and Auba Llompart

11 ‘There’s Always a Bright Side’: Poppy, a Positive Role Model in Trolls

Sara Martín

Part 2
The Darkness of Contemporary Fairy Tales

12 Far from Beastly: Monstrous Imaginations in Postmodern Fairy-Tale Films

Claudia Schwabe

13 Echoes of Fairy Tales: Fantasy and Everyday Horrors in Guillermo del Toro’s Filmography

Gema Navarro Goig and Francisco Javier Sánchez-Verdejo Pérez

14 From Fairy Tales to Slasher Films: Little Red Riding Hood and Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left

Javier Martín-Párraga

15 Howling in the Woods: Angela Carter’s Metamorphosed Little Red Riding Hoods

Nerea Riobó-Pérez

16 Red Shoes, Witches and Creatures of the Forest: Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy as Contemporary Fairy Tale

Miriam Borham-Puyal

17 ‘A Happy Person Never Phantasies’: Repression and Projection of the Self in Monstrous Fairy Tales

Stephanie Weber

18 ‘Children were terrified of her’: Interpreting Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black as a Folktale

Marta Miquel-Baldellou

19 The Broken Voice of History: Fairy Tales, Anti-Tales, and Holocaust Representation

María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro

20 Peter Pan Goes to War: the Reimaging and Exploration of J. M. Barrie’s Story as a Historically Realistic Graphic Novel

Stephané Greffrath

Part 3
Other Contemporary Subversions of Genre through Fairy Tales

21 Mary Poppins: The Subversive Magic Helper

Renáta Marosi

22 Rodents in Children’s Literature and Audiovisual Fairy Tales: a Book-to-Film Adaptation Approach

Rebeca Cristina López González

23 Bear Tales: Ways of Seeing Polar Bears in Mythology, Traditional Folktales and Modern-Day Children’s Literature

Lizanne Henderson

24 Cultural Writings of the Fairy Tale: a Spatial Reading of Three Studio Ghibli Productions

Eduardo Barros-Grela

25 Contemporary Japanese Folktales Represented in Anime: the Paradigmatic Case of InuYasha

Alba Quintairos-Soliño

26 Oral Storytelling, Slavic Mythology, Philological Research and Fairy Tales: the Case of Croatian Tales of Long Ago

Estela Banov

27 The Mark of Fairy Tales in Galician Literature for Children and Young Adults

Carmen Ferreira Boo

28 Where Else but Reading? Blending Genres in Jasper Fforde’s Nursery Crime Series

Miriam Fernández-Santiago

29 Following the Lead of Fairy Tales: Storytelling in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion

María José Coperías-Aguilar

30 Experimentalism and Self-Reflexivity in Donald Barthelme’s Postmodern Fairy Tales

Luisa María González Rodríguez

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lydia Brugué, Ph.D. (2013), Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya, is Professor of Translation, Interpreting and Applied Languages at Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Her research interests include fairy tales, Film Studies and Translation Studies.

Auba Llompart, Ph.D. (2014), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is Professor of English Language and Culture at Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Her research interests include English literature, children’s literature and fairy tales, Gothic Studies and Gender Studies.