Marvels & Tales Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2002
Marvels & Tales is a peer-reviewed journal that is international and multidisciplinary in orientation. The journal publishes scholarly work dealing with the fairy tale in any of its diverse manifestations and contexts. Marvels & Tales provides a central forum for fairy-tale studies by scholars of literature, folklore, gender studies, children’s literature, social and cultural history, anthropology, film studies, ethnic studies, art and music history, and others.
Table of Contents
The Bushman Trickster: Protagonist, Divinity, and Agent of Creativity
Mathias Guenther
A Masochism Promising Supreme Conquests: Simone de Beauvoir’s Reflections on Fairy Tales and Children’s Literature
Christine Shojaei Kawan
Scholarship in Translation
The Deconstruction of the Male-Rescuer Archetype in Contemporary Feminist Revisions of “The Sleeping Beauty”
Carolina Fernández Rodríguez
Texts & Translations
The Bird of Truth
Cecilia Bohl de Faber / Translated by Robert M. Fedorchek
The Magic Lamp
Rafik Schami / Translated by Alfred L. Cobbs
Overhearing Human and Animal Languages
Lee Haring and Dawood Auleear
Critical Exchanges
Professional Notices
Contributors