Marvels & Tales Volume 27, Number 2, Fall 2013

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Marvels & Tales Volume 27, Number 2

Marvels & Tales is a peer-reviewed journal that is international and multidisciplinary in orientation. The journal publishes scholarly work dealing with the fairy tale in any of its diverse manifestations and contexts. Marvels & Tales provides a central forum for fairy-tale studies by scholars of literature, folklore, gender studies, children’s literature, social and cultural history, anthropology, film studies, ethnic studies, art and music history, and others.'

Table of Contents

Articles

Lost Property Fairy Tales: Ogawa Yoko and Higami Kumiko's Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"
Lucy Fraser

"A Fool Will Never be Happy": Kurahashi Yumiko's Retelling of "Snow White"
Luciana Cardi

Envisioning the Invisible: Sex, Species, and Anomaly in Contemporary Japanese Women's Fiction
Charlotte Eubanks

Oba Minako the Raconteur: Refashioning a Yamauba Tale
Michiko N. Wilson

The Princess, the Witch, and the Fireplace: Yanagi Miwa's Uncanny Restaging of Fairy Tales
Murai Mayako

(Re)animating Folklore: Raccoon Dogs, Foxes, and Other Supernatural Japanese Citizens in Takahata Isao's Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko
Melek Ortabasi

The Yokai in the Database: Supernatural Creatures and Folklore in Manga and Anime
Deborah Shamoon

Terayama Shuji and Bluebeard
Steven C. Ridgely

Texts & Translations

Terayama Shuji's Red Riding Hood
Translated by Marc Sebastian-Jones

Tawada Yoko's "The Man with Two Mouths"
Translated by Margaret Mitsutani

Reviews

Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales (Michelle Osterfield Li)
Thomas E. McAuley

Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai (Michael Dylan Foster)
Michael Wilson

The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales (Trans. Burton Watson, ed. Haruo Shirane)
Fumihiko Kobayashi

Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan (Charlotte Eubanks)
Janet R. Goodwin

The Fairy Tale and Anime: Traditional Themes, Images, and Symbols at Play on Screen (Dani Cavallaro)
Okuyama Yoshiko

Anime and Its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art (Zilia Papp)
Deborah Shamoon

Shojo to akuma to fushagoya (The Girl Without Hands) and Honmono no fianse (The True Bride) (Olivier Py; dir. Satoshi Miyagi)
Murai Mayako


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