Cinderella across cultures : new directions and interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Gillian Lathey, and Monika Woźniak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dutheil de la Rochère, Martine Hennard, editor.

Lathey, Gillian, 1949- editor.

Woźniak, Monika, editor.

Series:

Series in fairy-tale studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cinderella (Tale)--History and criticism.

Cinderella (Tale).

Cinderella (Legendary character)--In literature.

Cinderella.

Physical Description:

xiv, 421 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"This book examplifies the interdisciplinary and transnational discourse of contemporary fairy-tale studies that seeks to foreground a fairy-tale text's situatedness as well as to historicize its intertextuality. Considering Cinderella as a soical text means to approach its refashioning across languages, media, and cultures, as seen in the contributions that focus on translation and adaptation; to focus on how fairy-tale discourses inform our understanding of various societies and cultures, with essays on how producing and interpreting Cinderella texts are intertwined with assumptions about family, sexuality, gender, childhood, and nation; and to treat material objects in fairy tales, like glass, and fairy-tale ephemera, like posters, as cultural texts. The essays collectively provide new insights into contextualizing, retelling, and reimag(in)ing Cinderella, and, though they wisely do not aim for a global survye, they do engage cultural traditions that, while remaining rooted in a Euro-American context, decenter the Basile-Perrault-Grimms-Disney geneaology. In doing so, the editors and contributors of this volume deploy a keen awareness of the cultural work that translation, as process and trope, does in the production of and responses to Cinderella texts, thus significantly advancing a culture of translation in fairy-tale studies." -- page xiii.

Contents:

Cinderella: The People's Princess / Ruth B. Bottigheimer

Perrault's "Cendrillon" among the Glass Tales: Crystal Fantasies and Glassworks in Seventeenth-Century France and Italy / Kathryn A. Hoffmann

The Translator as Agent of Change: Robert Samber, Translator of Pornography, Medical Texts, and the First English Version of Perrault's "Cendrillon" (1729) / Gillian Lathey

"Cendrillon" and "Aschenputtel": Different Voices, Different Projects, Different Cultures / Cyrille François

The Dissemination of a Fairy Tale in Popular Print: Cinderella as a Case Study / Talitha Verheij

Moral Adjustments to Perrault's Cinderella in French Children's Literature (1850

1900) / Daniel Aranda

Rejecting the Glass Slipper: The Subversion of Cinderella in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman / Rona May-Ron

Fairy-Tale Refashioning in Angela Carter's Fiction: From Cinderella's Ball Dresses to Ashputtle's Rags / Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère

Multiple Metamorphoses, or "New Skins" for an Old Tale: Emma Donoghue's Queer Cinderella in Translation / Ashley Riggs

Home by Midnight: The Male Cinderella in LGBTI Fiction for Young Adults / Mark Macleod

"I'm sure it all wears off by midnight": Prince Cinders and a Fairy's Queer Invitation / Jennifer Orme

Cinderella from a Cross-Cultural Perspective: Connecting East and West in Donna Jo Napoli's Bound / Roxane Hughes

Revisualizing Cinderella for All Ages / Sandra L. Beckett

The Illustrator as Fairy Godmother: The Illustrated Cinderella in the Low Countries / Jan Van Coillie

Imagining a Polish Cinderella / Monika Woźniak

Cinderella in Polish Posters / Agata Hołobut

On the Evolution of Success Stories in Soviet Mass Culture: The "Shining Path" of Working-Class Cinderella / Xenia Mitrokhina

The Triumph of the Underdog: Cinderella's Legacy / Jack Zipes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814341551

9780814341551

OCLC:

951981417

Publisher Number:

(YBP)12609034