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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn his widely influential study Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia, Sheldon Pollock argues that, for a variety of historical reasons, modern Western apprehensions of South Asian literature are...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe work of the Japanese artist Yanagi Miwa (1967-) explores received images of women and their own self-images in contemporary society, particularly through the reconfiguration of the intergenerational relationship...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne day long ago, a lord on the island of Shikoku found two identical-looking women sitting in his house, each claiming to be his wife. A doctor speculated that some ailment had caused the wife's spirit to separate into...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTranslator's Introduction Terayama Shuji (1935-1983) is best known for his work with the experimental theater group Tenjo Sajiki; he was also a poet, photographer, essayist, and film-maker. (1) Terayama was also the...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHans Christian Andersen's 1837 fairy tale "Den lille havfrue" (The Little Mermaid), combined with the strange creatures of premodern mermaid mythologies, has inspired a rich variety of fairy-tale transformations in...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne of the motivating forces behind this special issue of Marvels & Tales was the scarcity of scholarship dealing directly with the influence of folktales and fairy tales on contemporary Japanese writers and artists....
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo write about Bluebeard in Japan during the early 1960s would have been inevitably to enter into dialogue not just with Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale about the wealthy man, his most recent of many wives, and the...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince its founding in 1987, Marvels & Tales has sought to provide a forum in which modern fairy-tale studies could not only critically reassess the canonical collections and classical fairy tales of European cultures...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMany Japanese anime and manga narratives draw on Japanese folklore, reimagining tales for a modern audience, and contain references to or examples of supernatural creatures, or yokai. (1) As in Western culture, yokai,...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedShojo to akuma to fushagoya (The Girl Without Hands) and Honmono no fianse (The True Bride). Written by Olivier Py and directed by Miyagi Satoshi. Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, Shizuoka, Japan. January 21-March 11,...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs a young schoolgirl, Oba Minako (1930-2007) was totally absorbed by mukashi-banashi (ancient folktales), otogi-zoshi (classical Japanese fairy tales), and otogi-banashi (fairy tales in modern Japanese) as well as...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTranslator's Introduction Tawada Yoko's short story "Futakuchi otoko" (The Man with Two Mouths) is about a group of late-twentieth-century Japanese tourists who encounter the medieval trickster Till Eulenspiegel on a...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedKurahashi's Approach to Fairy Tales In Otona no tame no zankoku dowa (Cruel Fairy Tales for Adults) Kurahashi Yumiko (1935-2005) reworks a wide range of Western and Japanese literary sources, creating a fascinating...