1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales
The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales provides a comprehensive guide to fairy tales across literatures and cultures. It offers an expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, literary studies, and cultural studies.
The first part considers global formations of the canon and acts to decolonize the field of fairy-tale studies, highlighting the diverse national histories and traditions of the fairy tale worldwide. It demarcates the complex history of the field of fairy-tale studies and demonstrates how the genre is rooted in different oral stories and narratives passed down in cultures around the globe throughout time. The second section outlines important critical approaches, including recent developments shaping fairy-tale studies today such as disability studies, diversity, ecocriticism, inclusivity, and intersectionality. Part three explores how fairy tales have been articulated through a wide range of forms and combinations of textual, visual, and sound media. This section foregrounds the versatility and adaptability of the fairy tale and, more specifically, how it intersects with different art forms and genres, including literature, illustrations, performing arts, and media outlets. Section four addresses sociocultural concerns in transnational fairy-tale cultures and literatures examining the connections between fairy tales and multivocal influences in modern adaptations and postmodern reimaginings, the undoing of colonization and appropriation, feminism, politics and activisms, the canon, and controversies over authenticity.
This interdisciplinary collection draws on international perspectives from folkloristics, ethnology, ethnography, cultural and social anthropology, as well as queer and gender studies. It will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers interested in fairy tales and their developments over time and across cultures.
Introduction
Claudia Schwabe and Christa Jones
Part I - History and Global Formations of the Canon
1. North American Traditions: Transforming the Canon by Anthologizing and Adapting Indigenous and Immigrant Tales
Jill Terry Rudy
2. South American Fairy-Tale Traditions: Little Red Riding Hood in Alternative Itineraries
María Inés Palleiro
3. Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Puerto Rico (1914-1915): Jíbaro Rural Oral Fairy Tales
Rafael Ocasio
4. Remaking the Nine-Tailed Fox in Korean Fairy-Tale Television: Narrative, Gender, and Remediation
Li Guo
5. Decolonizing Through Desi Genres: Trans-generic Approaches to South Asian Fairy Tales
Nimeshika Venkatesan and Kikee Doma Bhutia
6. Turkish and Middle Eastern Folktales and Fairy Tales
Hande Birkalan-Gedik
7. The Arabian Nights: Medieval Magic Tales and Hannā Diyāb’s Fairy Tales
Ruth Bottigheimer
8. Hybridizing Nature in Colonial Australian and New Zealand Fairy Tales, 1891-1930
Michelle J. Smith
9. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations: Folk and Fairy Tales in Central and Eastern Europe Slavic Countries
Monika Woźniak
Part II - Theories and Approaches
10. A Historicist Approach to the Evolution of Fairy Tales
Shuli Barzilai
11. Thinking with Fairy Tales: Cognitive Approaches to the Genre
Francesca Arnavas
12. Psychological and Therapeutic Approaches to the Fairy Tale
Daniela Kato
13. Multispecies Fairy-Tale Studies
Mayako Murai
14. A Question of Architecture: Structuralist, Formalist, and Postmodern Approaches to Fairy Tales
Kendra Reynolds
15. Postcolonial Tricksters: African Diasporic Folklore in Contemporary Culture
Emily Zobel Marshall
16. Fairy Tales and Their Translatedness
Christine A. Jones
17. Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
Jeana Jorgensen
18. Mutation, Mutilation, Metamorphosis, Monstrosity: A Cripistemological Analysis of Disability and Difference in Old and New Fairy Tales
Anna Kérchy
Part III - Art Forms and Genre Intersections
19. Literary Fairy Tales: Constructed Hybrids
Julie L.J. Koehler
20. Fairy Tales as Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Vanessa Joosen and Lore Goossens
21. Twenty-First Century Fairy-Tale Adaptations on Page and Screen
Kate Koppy
22. Fairy-Tale Pastiche: Nostalgia and Whimsy at Work in ABC’s Once Upon a Time and Disney’s Wish
Christy Williams
23. Images of the Imaginary: Fairy-Tale Illustration and the Visual Arts
Andrew Teverson
24. Manga and Anime
Bill Ellis
25. Sea Foam and Speech Bubbles: Fairy Tales, Comics, and Making Change Through Creative Scholarship
Erin Kathleen Bahl
26. Unburied Moons: Fairy-tale Artivism in the Western and Southern European Traditions
Elena Emma Sottilotta
27. Abject Bodies in Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales
Jade Dillon-Craig
Part IV - Fairy-Tale Practices and Controversies
28. Stone Soup: Controversies Over Authenticity
Kristiana Willsey
29. The Transcultural Texts of (Post-)Colonial Folklore Collections: Examples from the Francophone World
Lewis C. Seifert
30. Feminist Controversies: Examining Fairy-Tale Retellings in the Context of Postfeminism. A Case of Young Adult Literature
Weronika Kostecka
31. Canon Controversies
Anne E. Duggan
32. “But in the Disney version…”: Fairy Tales, Authenticity and Controversy
Tracey Mollet
33. The Fairy-Tale Web
Cristina Bacchilega
34. Colonialist and Racist Stereotyping in (Re)Translating and Illustrating: An Analysis of The Five Chinese Brothers
Juwen Zhang
35. Marvelous Tales from Folks to Folks: Seeking What is Just from and with the Unconsidered
Vivian Labrie
Biography
Claudia Schwabe is Professor of German at Utah State University, USA.
Christa Jones is Professor of French at Utah State University, USA.
