Author Description

Abbreviations: tale type and motif index references -- Introduction: the fairy tale and the world / Andrew Teverson -- Global or local?: where do fairy tales belong? / Donald Haase -- "Decolonizing" the canon: critical challenges to Eurocentrism / Cristina Bacchilega -- The Middle Eastern world's contribution to fairy-tale history / Ulrich Marzolph -- The formation of the literary fairy tale in early modern Italy, 1550-1636 / Nancy L. Canepa -- Social change and the development of the fairy tale in France, 1690-1799 / Christine A. Jones -- National/international/transnational: the Brothers Grimm and their fairy tales / Maria Tatar -- By forgotten hands: the role of translation in the emergence of the fairy tale / Gillian Lathey -- Fairy tale in Africa: a contrast of centuries / Ruth Finnegan -- Narratives of the southwest Indian Ocean: commonalities and localizations / Lee Haring -- Fairy tales and folklore in South Africa / Nadia van der Westhuizen -- Strangers and defiant maids: empire and the African folk narrative / Andrew Teverson -- West African magical realism among the wonder genres / Kim Anderson Sasser -- Francophone fairy tales in West Africa and the Caribbean / Lewis C. Seifert -- This is not a fairy tale: Anansi and the web of narrative power / Emily Zobel Marshall -- Decolonizing the curriculum: African fairy tales and literacies / Vivian Yenika-Agbaw -- Myths and folktales in Latin America / John Bierhorst -- The politics and poetics of Märchen in Hawaiian-language newspapers / Marie Alohalani Brown -- Neal a. lester -- Sexes, sexualities and gender in cinematic North and South American fairy tales: transforming Cinderellas / Pauline Greenhill -- Gender, sexuality and the fairy tale in contemporary American literature / Jeana Jorgensen -- Fairy tales and digital culture / Brittany Warman -- Fairy tale, fan fiction and popular media / Anne Kustritz -- Fairy-tale worlds of South Asia / Sadhana Naithani -- Lovely fairies and crafty ghosts in