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Author Murai, Mayako

Title Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures
Published OnixTransformation.OnixModel.CityOfPublication : Wayne State University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (433 p.)
Series Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
Series in fairy-tale studies.
Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Disorienting Cultural Assumptions -- 1. Fairy Tales in Site: Wonders of Disorientation, Challenges of Re-Orientation -- 2. Mo'olelo Kamaha'o 2.0: The Art and Politics of the Modern Hawaiian Wonder Tale -- 3. Re-Orienting China and America: Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China and Its TV Adaptation -- 4. Monstrous Marionette: The Tale of a Japanese Doll by Angela Carter -- Part II. Exploring New Uses -- 5. Japanese Heroine Tales and the Significance of Storytelling in Contemporary Society
6. Who's Afraid of Derrida & Co.? Modern Theory Meets Three Little Pigs in the Classroom -- 7. Adults Reclaiming Fairy Tales through Cinema: Popular Fairy-Tale Movie Adaptations from the Past Decade -- 8. Trespassing the Boundaries of Fairy Tales: Pablo Berger's Silent Film Snow White -- Part III. Promoting Alternative Ethics and Aesthetics -- 9. Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale, Revising Age? -- 10. Re-Orienting Fairy-Tale Childhood: Child Protagonists as Critical Signifiers of Fairy-Tale Tropes in Transnational Contemporary Cinema
11. Alice on the Edge: Girls' Culture and "Western" Fairy Tales in Japan -- 12. Magical Bird Maidens: Reconsidering Romantic Fairy Tales in Japanese Popular Culture -- 13. When Princess(es) Will Sing: Girls Rock and Alternative Queer Interpretation -- 14. The Plantation, the Garden, and the Forest: Biocultural Borderlands in Angela Carter's "Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest" -- Contributors -- Index
Summary New approaches to decenter Eurocentric perspectives in fairy tales and lift up storytelling cultures across the globe
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Cardi, Luciana
Bacchilega, Cristina
Barzilai, Shuli
Brodski, Michael
Fraser, Lucy
ho'omanawanui, ku'ualoha
Hughes, Roxane
Ikoma, Natsumi
ISBN 9780814345375
0814345379