Marvels & Tales Volume 34, Number 2, Fall 2020
Marvels & Tales Volume 34, Number 2
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 34, Number 2 (Fall 2020)
From the Editors
The Secret Life of Things Queering the Museal Gaze in Angela Carter’s Postmodern Curiosity Cabinets
Anna Kérchy
Mise en Abyme and Katabasis: Helen Oyeyemi’s and Tanith Lee’s Reimaginings of “Snow White”
Anita Harris Satkunananthan
B(e)aring the Beast: Deformity, Animality, and the Ableist Gaze in French Literary Variants of “Beauty and the Beast”
Adrion Dula
“Beneath it all Something as yet Unnamed was Coming into Focus”: A Queer Reading of Malinda Lo’s Ash
Suzy Woltmann
Lost without Breadcrumbs: Family, Scapegoating, and the Rationalization of Abuse in Robert Eggers’s The Witch
Kerry Olivetti
The Body Binary: Compulsory Able-bodiedness and Desirably Disabled Futures in Disney’s The Little Mermaid and The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
JC Hammond Sebring and Pauline Greenhill
Texts & Translations
Asinarius, or The Donkey Tale
Translated by Stijn Praet
Reviews
Dancing on Blades: Rare and Exquisite Folktales from the Carpathian Mountains (Csenge Zalka)
Sarah N. Lawson
The Psychosocial Implications of Disney Movies (Ed. Lauren Dundes)
CJ Guadarrama
Reading Children’s Literature: A Critical Introduction, 2nd edition (Carrie L. Hintz and Eric L. Tribunella)
Jennifer Geer
Teaching Fairy Tales (Ed. Nancy L. Canepa)
Mary L. Sellers
Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain (Ed. Michael Rosen)
Claire Schmidt
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit (Emily Zobel Marshall)
Claire Schmidt
The Fabulous Journey of Alice and Pinocchio: Exploring Their Parallel Worlds (Laura Tosi with Peter Hunt)
Azadeh Najafian
Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen: Rituals of Girlhood (Athena Bellas)
Kathryn M. Holmes
Music in Disney’s Animated Features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Jungle Book (James Bohn)
Jill Terry Rudy
Peterborough Folklore (Francis Young)
Heather M. Hoyt
Shakespeare’s Folktale Sources (Charlotte Artese)
Sara Cleto
Staging Fairyland: Folklore, Children’s Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime (Jennifer Schacker)
Jeana Jorgensen
Contributors
Index to Volume 34 (2020)