Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors



Introduction



Part 1
Contemporary Subversions of Gender in Fairy Tales



1 The Cursed Fairy: Broken Spells in Anne Sexton’s Poetry

 Francisco José Cortés Vieco

2 Revisiting Fairy-Tale Land through a Gender Lens in Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch

 María Amor Barros del Río

3 Fairy-Tale Reflections: Space and Women Host(age)s in Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird

 Paula Barba Guerrero

4 Un-training the Imagination through Adaptation: an Exploration of Gender through Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the Spindle

 Jade Lum

5 ‘There Are Always Choices. She Made One’: an Existentialist Approach to Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the Spindle

 Alba Torres Álvarez

6 The British Empire’s Lost Slipper: Dangerous Irish Cinderellas

 Abigail Heiniger

7 Cinderboy and Snow White and the Seven Aliens: Analysis of the Rewriting of Two Classic Tales and Their Translations to Spanish

 Ana Pereira Rodríguez and Lourdes Lorenzo García

8 Resistance and Revolt: Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty Re-Viewed

 Sarah Bonner

9 Empowered Fairy-Tale Heroines Reinvent Happily-Ever-After

 Lisa L. Ortiz and Sheila M. Rucki

10 The Strongest of the Fairies: Reworking Gender and Villainy in Walt Disney’s Maleficent

 Lydia Brugué and Auba Llompart

11 ‘There’s Always a Bright Side’: Poppy, a Positive Role Model in Trolls

 Sara Martín



Part 2
The Darkness of Contemporary Fairy Tales



12 Far from Beastly: Monstrous Imaginations in Postmodern Fairy-Tale Films

 Claudia Schwabe

13 Echoes of Fairy Tales: Fantasy and Everyday Horrors in Guillermo del Toro’s Filmography

 Gema Navarro Goig and Francisco Javier Sánchez-Verdejo Pérez

14 From Fairy Tales to Slasher Films: Little Red Riding Hood and Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left

 Javier Martín-Párraga

15 Howling in the Woods: Angela Carter’s Metamorphosed Little Red Riding Hoods

 Nerea Riobó-Pérez

16 Red Shoes, Witches and Creatures of the Forest: Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy as Contemporary Fairy Tale

 Miriam Borham-Puyal

17 ‘A Happy Person Never Phantasies’: Repression and Projection of the Self in Monstrous Fairy Tales

 Stephanie Weber

18 ‘Children were terrified of her’: Interpreting Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black as a Folktale

 Marta Miquel-Baldellou

19 The Broken Voice of History: Fairy Tales, Anti-Tales, and Holocaust Representation

 María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro

20 Peter Pan Goes to War: the Reimaging and Exploration of J. M. Barrie’s Story as a Historically Realistic Graphic Novel

 Stephané Greffrath



Part 3
Other Contemporary Subversions of Genre through Fairy Tales



21 Mary Poppins: The Subversive Magic Helper

 Renáta Marosi

22 Rodents in Children’s Literature and Audiovisual Fairy Tales: a Book-to-Film Adaptation Approach

 Rebeca Cristina López González

23 Bear Tales: Ways of Seeing Polar Bears in Mythology, Traditional Folktales and Modern-Day Children’s Literature

 Lizanne Henderson

24 Cultural Writings of the Fairy Tale: a Spatial Reading of Three Studio Ghibli Productions

 Eduardo Barros-Grela

25 Contemporary Japanese Folktales Represented in Anime: the Paradigmatic Case of InuYasha

 Alba Quintairos-Soliño

26 Oral Storytelling, Slavic Mythology, Philological Research and Fairy Tales: the Case of Croatian Tales of Long Ago

 Estela Banov

27 The Mark of Fairy Tales in Galician Literature for Children and Young Adults

 Carmen Ferreira Boo

28 Where Else but Reading? Blending Genres in Jasper Fforde’s Nursery Crime Series

 Miriam Fernández-Santiago

29 Following the Lead of Fairy Tales: Storytelling in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion

 María José Coperías-Aguilar

30 Experimentalism and Self-Reflexivity in Donald Barthelme’s Postmodern Fairy Tales

 Luisa María González Rodríguez



Index

About the Author

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.