Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/mat.2023.a900266
J. Jorgensen
ID:p0185 in 1955, the Israel Folktale Archives contain over twenty-four thousand folk narrative texts. They are classified using an internal numerical system, but thankfully the book provides a list of AT and ATU numbers that correspond to the tales where relevant. Much of the book’s introduction is spent detailing the ethnographic collection methods used both in general and at specific fieldwork sites, which is useful from a methodological perspective. The book also contains photographs of many of the tale-tellers, a list of the narrators, a list of the transcribers, and a list of the countries of origin of the narratives. There are appendixes aplenty. The
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/mat.2023.a900260
Claudia M. Schwabe
Abstract:In this article I examine the German Fairy Tale Route as an example of fairy-tale tourism that merges fairy tales with local legends and history. Over the years, the Verein Deutsche Märchenstraße or German Fairy Tale Route Society (GFTRS), headquartered in the city of Kassel, has incorporated locales and regions into the route that have little or no connection with the Brothers Grimm, their Märchen, and their sources. I, therefore, argue that the GFTRS reimagines and markets places by instrumentalizing fairy tales for the sake of touristic gains while maintaining some questionable assertions of authenticity and tradition.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/mat.2023.a900262
Raahi Adhya
Abstract:The Bengali literary genre of the roopkatha, tales collected from regions that now lie in West Bengal and Bangladesh, gained immense popularity during the peak of anticolonial cultural nationalism in Bengal over the turn of the twentieth century. Among its defining characteristics is its association with old women. This article studies the roopkatha's old woman at the three levels of narrative, discourse, and social history to argue that she emerges as a capacious figure who troubles binary understandings of fairy-tale characterization, universalized assumptions about old age, and assumptions about the social roles of old women in South Asia.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/mat.2023.a900271
Jen Pendragon
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/mat.2023.a900268
H. Mummert
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/mat.2023.a900269
Jennifer Eastman Attebery
ID:p0325 Jorgensen’s Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies is an engaging guide for those who want to know more about folklore but have not had the opportunity to study folklore formally. Jorgensen characterizes her intended readers as “people in the real world” (305). To reach this audience she adopts the informal rhetoric of blog posts with the form’s colloquialism, humor, asides, self-referentiality, and brevity. Many readers will enjoy this informality; others may find it too colloquial. The
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/mat.2023.a900258
M. Anjirbag
Abstract:This essay uses Neil Gaiman's Stardust, The Sleeper and the Spindle, and "Chivalry," to examine the intersection of age and gender in his fairy-tale appropriations to consider how fantasy can reiterate stereotypical representations of older women. By drawing on the age studies work of Sylvia Henneberg and Susan Pickard to consider ageism as a cross-section to gendered constructions in Gaiman's works, I make visible how age affects perception and construction of gender, which can lead to the intertwining of age stereotypes and gendered double standards.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/mat.2023.a900261
L. C. Seifert
Abstract:French animator Michel Ocelot has garnered much praise for his fairy-tale films, which resist commercial norms and often question gender and racial stereotypes. But his Kirikou film series has nonetheless been criticized for recycling stereotypes of traditional African life. This article reframes these criticisms by focusing on the depiction of human-nonhuman relations. Ocelot's Kirikou films present a striking contrast between minimalist human figures and detailed backgrounds that focuses attention on how humans interact with the nonhuman. This aspect of the Kirikou films reminds us the fairy tale has much to reveal about how we conceive the world we inhabit.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/mat.2023.a900274
Cristina Bacchilega
ID:p0555 his hat to the linguistic convention of Arabic that conceived of numbers like 1001 and 101 as stand-ins for an inexhaustibility of the infinite, Marzolph’s book retains the mysterious magic of the tales themselves, such that his collection becomes a garden of forking paths and unexpected pleasures. Marzolph’s book shares this quality with the best reference works that introduce the reader to new places to look, research, and find lost connections that may delight our friends, colleagues, and ourselves. This extremely erudite volume is the product of a lifetime of devotion to the field of comparative folk narrative research. The book is a trove of potential sources, methodologies, perspectives, and insights for specialist readers, which are the byways for future research. In a broader sense, each of the essays succeeds not only in delineating the “extent to which the West is indebted to the Muslim World” but, perhaps more significantly, it shows the “common features” that the West has shared with the Muslim tradition (3). For classroom teachers, one example of the kinds of passages from East to West drawn from the many case studies in this book would suffice to demonstrate the folly of nationalist scholarships. We can only hope that modern-day students are as lucky as Walpole was to encounter some of the inherited wisdom of these “silly” stories from long ago and far away. Maurice
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/mat.2023.a900259
Agnieszka Kliś-Brodowska
Abstract:Child of Light (2014) by Ubisoft Montreal is a curious instance of a AAA-indie fairy-tale game with revisionist aspirations. In the article I read the game as an adaptation of, above all, the Brothers Grimm "Little Red Cap," ask whether it may indeed have a revisionist potential, and investigate the extent to which such potential may be seen as manifested through the game's narrative and ludic elements. I also argue for an investigation of the ideological functions of fairy-tale digital games that necessarily addresses the impact of the games industry on a game's content.
育碧蒙特利尔工作室的《Child of Light》(2014)是一款带有修正主义意图的aaa级独立童话游戏。在这篇文章中，我将这款游戏视为格林兄弟(Brothers Grimm)的《小红帽》(Little Red Cap)的改编作品，询问它是否确实具有修正主义的潜力，并调查这种潜力在多大程度上可以通过游戏的叙事和搞笑元素体现出来。我还主张对童话数字游戏的意识形态功能进行调查，以解决游戏产业对游戏内容的影响。
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