Marvels & Tales Volume 31, Number 2, Fall 2017
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.
Marvels & Tales Volume 31, Number 2 (Fall 2017)
Peasantry in Palestinian Folktales: Sites of Memory, Homeland, and Collectivity
Farah Aboubakr
Women and Slaves: Gender Politics in the Arabian Nights
Tarek Shamma
American Aladdins and Sinbads: A Critical Bibliographic Examination of the Arabian Nights for Antebellum Nationhood
Rasoul Aliakbari
Surgical Humanization in H. C. Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”
Lori Yamato
“A Different Logic”: Animals, Transformation, and Rationality in Angela Carter’s “The Tiger’s Bride”
Caroline Webb and Helen Hopcroft
Translating Russian Folklore into Soviet Fantasy in Arkadi and Boris Strugatski’s Monday Begins on Saturday and Catherynne M. Valente’s Deathless
Katherine Magyarody
Cinderella in Chinatown: Seeking Identity and Cultural Values in Year of the Fish
Xiaoqing Qiu
Vigilante Feminism: Revising Trauma, Abduction, and Assault in American Fairy-Tale Revisions
Laura Mattoon D’Amore
Reviews
The Latin American Story Finder: A Guide to 470 Tales from Mexico, Central America, and South America, Listing Subjects and Sources (Sharon Barcan Elswit)
John Bierhorst
The Princess and the Goblin and Other Fairy Tales (George MacDonald; Ed. Shelley King and John B. Pierce)
Sara Cleto
Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Illus. Natalie Frank; Ed. Karen Marta)
Kirsten Rae Simonsen
Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from Around the World, 2nd ed. (Ed. Anne E. Duggan and Donald Haase, with Helen J. Callow)
Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo
The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang (Ed. Andrew Teverson, Alexandra Warwick, and Leigh Wilson)
Mary Sellers
Fairy Tales in Popular Culture (Ed. Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek)
Brittany Warman
New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales (Ed. Christa C. Jones and Claudia Schwabe)
Theodora Goss
From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West(Mayako Murai)
Rose Williamson
The Irish Fairy Tale: A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens (Vito Carrassi; Trans. Kevin Wren)
Deanna Allred
Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime (Yoshiko Okuyama)
Micheline M. Soong
The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films (Qinna Shen)
Julie Koehler
Preserving the Magic Spell: Basile’s “The Tale of Tales” and Its Afterlife in the Fairy-Tale Tradition (Armando Maggi)
Bethany Hanks
Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: Reflections on Fairy Tales (Katherine Langrish)
Abigail Heiniger
Transforming Tales: Rewriting Metamorphosis in Medieval French Literature (Miranda Griffin)
Jack Zipes
Critical Exchanges
Contributors
Index to Volume 31 (2017)