Marvels & Tales Volume 32, Number 1, Spring 2018
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.
Marvels & Tales Volume 32, Number 1 (Spring 2018)
Nets of Maya: Gorakhnath as a Trickster Saint in the Folktale of Raja Bharthari and Gopi Chand
Karan Singh
Afghano-Persian Trickster Women: Definitions, Liminalities, and Gender
Margaret A. Mills
“Nothing but Pleasant Memories of the Discipline of Slavery”: The Trickster and the Dynamics of Racial Representation
Emily Zobel Marshall
One Evening in Mayotte
Lee Haring
Trickster(s) of Neil Stephenson’s The Diamond Age
Robert W. Guyker, Jr.
The Man Who Made the Nights Immortal: The Tales of the Syrian Maronite Storyteller Ḥannā Diyāb
Ulrich Marzolph
Texts and Translations
Ḥannā Diyāb’s Tales, part I
Ulrich Marzolph with Anne E. Duggan
Grandfather Rat
Jason Harris
Reviews
Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World (Ed. Maria Tatar)
Jeannie Coutant
The Book of Greek & Roman Folktales, Legends & Myths (Ed. William Hansen)
Nick Mamatas
Mother Goose Refigured: A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault’s Fairy Tales (Christine A. Jones)
Adrion Dula
Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan (Noriko Reider)
Abigail Heiniger
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales (Ed. Jack Zipes)
Shannon Scott
Hans Christian Andersen. Udvalgte eventyr og historier. Contes et histoires choisis (Ed. Cyrille François)
Johan de Mylius
Victorian Fairy Tales (Ed. Michael Newton)
Molly Clark Hillard
Cinderella Across Cultures: New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère)
Kathryn M. Holmes
Alice in Transmedia Wonderland: Curiouser and Curiouser New Forms of a Children’s Classic (Anna Kérchy)
Virginie Iché
Japanese Animal-Wife Tales: Narrating Gender Reality in Japanese Folktale Tradition (Fumihiko Kobayashi)
Kate Goddard
Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights (Paulo Lemos Horta)
Nivair H. Gabriel
Narrative Structures in Burmese Folk Tales (Soe Marlar Lwin)
Terence Patrick Murphy
Magic for Unlucky Girls (A.A. Balaskovits)
Caity Gladstone
Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter (Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 10 December 2016 to 19 March 2017. Exhibition)
Mayako Murai
Critical Exchanges
Contributors