Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic

Lydia Brugué, Ph.D. (2013), Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya, is Professor of Translation, Interpreting and Applied Languages at Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Her research interests include fairy tales, Film Studies and Translation Studies.Auba Llompart, Ph.D. (2014), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is Professor of English Language and Culture at Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Her research interests include English literature, children’s literature and fairy tales, Gothic Studies and Gender Studies.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart 1Contemporary Subversions of Gender in Fairy Tales1 The Cursed Fairy: Broken Spells in Anne Sexton’s PoetryFrancisco José Cortés Vieco2 Revisiting Fairy-Tale Land through a Gender Lens in Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the WitchMaría Amor Barros del Río3 Fairy-Tale Reflections: Space and Women Host(age)s in Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, BirdPaula Barba Guerrero4 Un-training the Imagination through Adaptation: an Exploration of Gender through Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the SpindleJade Lum5 ‘There Are Always Choices. She Made One’: an Existentialist Approach to Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the SpindleAlba Torres Álvarez6 The British Empire’s Lost Slipper: Dangerous Irish CinderellasAbigail Heiniger7 Cinderboy and Snow White and the Seven Aliens: Analysis of the Rewriting of Two Classic Tales and Their Translations to SpanishAna Pereira Rodríguez and Lourdes Lorenzo García8 Resistance and Revolt: Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty Re-ViewedSarah Bonner9 Empowered Fairy-Tale Heroines Reinvent Happily-Ever-AfterLisa L. Ortiz and Sheila M. Rucki10 The Strongest of the Fairies: Reworking Gender and Villainy in Walt Disney’s MaleficentLydia Brugué and Auba Llompart11 ‘There’s Always a Bright Side’: Poppy, a Positive Role Model in TrollsSara MartínPart 2The Darkness of Contemporary Fairy Tales12 Far from Beastly: Monstrous Imaginations in Postmodern Fairy-Tale FilmsClaudia Schwabe13 Echoes of Fairy Tales: Fantasy and Everyday Horrors in Guillermo del Toro’s FilmographyGema Navarro Goig and Francisco Javier Sánchez-Verdejo Pérez14 From Fairy Tales to Slasher Films: Little Red Riding Hood and Wes Craven’s The Last House on the LeftJavier Martín-Párraga15 Howling in the Woods: Angela Carter’s Metamorphosed Little Red Riding HoodsNerea Riobó-Pérez16 Red Shoes, Witches and Creatures of the Forest: Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy as Contemporary Fairy TaleMiriam Borham-Puyal17 ‘A Happy Person Never Phantasies’: Repression and Projection of the Self in Monstrous Fairy TalesStephanie Weber18 ‘Children were terrified of her’: Interpreting Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black as a FolktaleMarta Miquel-Baldellou19 The Broken Voice of History: Fairy Tales, Anti-Tales, and Holocaust RepresentationMaría Jesús Martínez-Alfaro20 Peter Pan Goes to War: the Reimaging and Exploration of J. M. Barrie’s Story as a Historically Realistic Graphic NovelStephané GreffrathPart 3Other Contemporary Subversions of Genre through Fairy Tales21 Mary Poppins: The Subversive Magic HelperRenáta Marosi22 Rodents in Children’s Literature and Audiovisual Fairy Tales: a Book-to-Film Adaptation ApproachRebeca Cristina López González23 Bear Tales: Ways of Seeing Polar Bears in Mythology, Traditional Folktales and Modern-Day Children’s LiteratureLizanne Henderson24 Cultural Writings of the Fairy Tale: a Spatial Reading of Three Studio Ghibli ProductionsEduardo Barros-Grela25 Contemporary Japanese Folktales Represented in Anime: the Paradigmatic Case of InuYashaAlba Quintairos-Soliño26 Oral Storytelling, Slavic Mythology, Philological Research and Fairy Tales: the Case of Croatian Tales of Long AgoEstela Banov27 The Mark of Fairy Tales in Galician Literature for Children and Young AdultsCarmen Ferreira Boo28 Where Else but Reading? Blending Genres in Jasper Fforde’s Nursery Crime SeriesMiriam Fernández-Santiago29 Following the Lead of Fairy Tales: Storytelling in Jeanette Winterson’s The PassionMaría José Coperías-Aguilar30 Experimentalism and Self-Reflexivity in Donald Barthelme’s Postmodern Fairy TalesLuisa María González RodríguezIndex