From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West

by Mayako Murai

Book Overview

Brings contemporary Japanese literary and artistic fairy-tale adaptations into conversation with Euro-American feminist fairy-tale re-creation and scholarship.

As in the United States, fairy-tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary adaptations tend to have a more female-oriented perspective than traditional tales...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814339492
• ISBN13: 9780814339497
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"