From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West Contributor(s): Murai, Mayako (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814339492 ISBN-13: 9780814339497 Publisher: Wayne State University Press OUR PRICE: $31.67 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Japanese - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
Dewey: 398.209 |
LCCN: 2015945037 |
Series: Fairy-Tale Studies |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: As in the United States, fairy-tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary adaptations tend to have a more female-oriented perspective than traditional tales and feature female characters with independent spirits.In From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West, Mayako Murai examines the uses of fairy tales in the works of Japanese women writers and artists since the 1990s in the light of Euro-American feminist fairy-tale re-creation and scholarship. |
Contributor Bio(s): Murai, Mayako: - Mayako Murai is a professor in the English department at Kanagawa University, Japan. Her recent writings have appeared in Grimms' Tales around the Globe: The Dynamics of Their International Reception (Wayne State University Press, 2014) and the journal Marvels & Tales. |