Gomel / Gurevitch The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-26397-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This handbook is the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of fantasy outside the Anglo-American hegemony. While most academic studies of fantasy follow the well-trodden path of focusing on Tolkien, Rowling, and others, our collection spotlights rich and unique fantasy literatures in India, Australia, Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, China, and many other areas of Europe, Asia, and the global South. The first part focuses on the theoretical aspects of fantasy, broadening and modifying existing definitions to accommodate the global reach of the genre. The second part contains essays illuminating specific cultures, countries, and religious or ethnic traditions. From Aboriginal myths to (self)-representation of Tibet, from the appropriation of the Polish Witcher by the American pop culture to modern Greek fantasy that does not rely on stories of Olympian deities, and from Israeli vampires to Talmudic sages, this collection is an indispensable reading for anyone interested in fantasy fiction and global literature. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gomel, Elana

Gurevitch, Danielle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Theory and Methodology What Is Fantasy and Who Decides? Fantasy as Genre: On Defining the Field of Study 
A Biocultural Taxonomy 
Allotopia: A World-Building Narrative 
A Thousand and One Book: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Serialized FantasyCrosshatch Fantasy: Unsettling Portals, Crisis Heterotopias, and Comings-of-Age Hybrid Secondary Worlds: Animal Fantasy 
“How Did you Go about Saving a City? She Googled it”: Urban Fantasy Cities as Communities of Citizens
Punk Subculture in Urban Fantasy: Life on the Border Part II Countries and Cultures History and Other (Colonial) Fantasies: Indigenous Time Play in Cleverman Chinese Danmei: Male-Male Romance, Women’s Fantasy, and the Feminization of Labor in the Digital Age Between Scylla and Charybdis: A Survey of Greek Fantasy Fiction Re-imagining Hindu Mythology in the Twenty-First Century: Amish Tripathi and Indian Fantasy Fiction in English Wilderness as Wonderland: Jewish Fantasy from Ancient to Modern Israeli Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fantastical Chronotopes and the Modern Promised Land Looking for an Italian Style fantasy The Little Red Gloves: Apocalyptic Fantasy and the Bodhisattva of Mercy in a Japanese Picture Book on Hiroshima Latin American Fantasy as Heterogeneous Literature: Between Neomedievalism and Latin AmericanismCultural Appropriation of Poland’s Fantasy: The Cold War Saga o Wiedz´minie Moving into American Mainstream Culture Syncretism in Russian Fantasy Mystification, Religious Imagery, and Fantasy in Modern Tibetan Literature

Über Autor(innen)

Elana Gomel is Associate Professor at the Department of English and American Studies at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of five academic books and numerous articles on subjects such as narrative theory, posthumanism, science fiction, and Victorian culture. She is also an award-winning fiction writer. 

Danielle Gurevitch is cultural ethnologist and the director of the Multidisciplinary Studies at the Humanities at Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of several articles, editor of three academic books, and author of two. Speculative fiction, medieval literature, comparative literature, and gender studies are among her fields of expertise. Additionally, she is the chair of the faculty’s “Dangoor Centre” for cultural diplomacy.