War, Myths, and Fairy Tales
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War, Myths, and Fairy Tales

  1. 249 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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War, Myths, and Fairy Tales

About this book

This exciting new collection examines the relationships between warfare, myths, and fairy tales, and explores the connections and contradictions between the narratives of war and magic that dominate the ways in which people live and have lived, survived, considered and described their world. Presenting original contributions and critical reflections that explore fairy tales, fantasy and wars, be they "real" or imagined, past or present, this book looks at creative works in popular culture, stories of resistance, the history and representation of global and local conflicts, the Holocaust, across multiple media. It offers a timely and important overview of the latest research in the field, including contributions from academics, story-tellers and artists, thereby transcending the traditional boundaries of the disciplines, extending the parameters of war studies beyond the battlefield.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9789811026836
eBook ISBN
9789811026843
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Social History
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Notes on Contributors
  3. List of Figures
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction: Tales of War and  Wonder—Reflecting on War, Myths, and Fairy Tales and the Breadcrumb Trails Between
  5. Chapter 2: And They Lived Happily Ever After? The Fable as Search for Meaning in Holocaust Cinema
  6. Chapter 3: “The Boy with the Bread”: Consuming Hansel and Gretel in the Twenty-First Century
  7. Chapter 4: Abelardo Díaz Alfaro’s Tales: The Tragicomedy of the Dawn of US Intervention in Puerto Rico
  8. Chapter 5: Once Upon a Nation: Fables and Fairy Tales in Canadian Plays About War
  9. Chapter 6: Flying Home: Aestheticizing and Americanizing Experiences of Exile and Migration in the Second World War as Fairy Tales of Return and Restoration
  10. Chapter 7: Child Soldiers in Medieval(esque) Cinema
  11. Chapter 8: “A Trap of Our Own Making”: Mark Twain and the Mechanized Warfare of King Arthur’s Court
  12. Chapter 9: “Life Was a State in Which a War Was On”: A.S. Byatt’s Portrayal of War and Norse Mythology in Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
  13. Chapter 10: War and the Ruby Tree. The Motif of the Unborn Generations in Jewish Women’s Story-Telling
  14. Index

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