The Palgrave handbook of global fantasy

The Palgrave handbook of global fantasy / Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch, editors.

Hurray for this volume!! Breaking away from the familiar ground of Fantastical Anglophone texts read by English-language scholars, the essays here show the much needed glocality of contemporary scholarship. The first half of the essays probe the generic, methodological, and theoretical assumptions o...

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Other Authors: Gomel, Elana (Editor), Gurevitch, Danielle (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Subjects:
Fantasy fiction > History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.Fantasy as Genre: On Defining the Field of Study
  • 2. Allotopia: World-Building in Fantasy
  • 3. Bio-Cultural Taxonomy
  • 4. A Thousand and one Book: A Cross Cultural Approach to serialized fantasy
  • 5.Childrens Crosshatch Fantasy: Disturbing Portals, Crises and Comings-of-Age
  • 6.Hybrid Secondary Worlds: Animal Fantasy
  • 7."How did you go about saving a city? She googled it": Urban Fantasy Cities as Communities of citizens
  • 8. Punk Subculture in Urban Fantasy: Life on the Border
  • 9. History and Other (Colonial) Fantasies: Indigenous Time play in Cleverman
  • 10. Chinese Danmei: Male-Male Romance, Womens Fantasy, and the Feminization of Labor in the Digital Age
  • 11.Between Scylla & Charybdis: A Survey of Greece Fantasy Fiction
  • 12.Re-imagining Hindu Mythology in the 21st Century: Amish Tripathi and Indian Fantasy Fiction in English
  • 13. Looking for an Italian-Style Fantasy
  • 14.Wilderness as Wonderland: Talmudic Stories and Modern Israeli Fantasy
  • 15. Israeli Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fantastical Chronotopes and The Modern Promised Land
  • 16.The Little Red Gloves: Apocalyptic Fantasy and the Bodhisattva of Mercy in a Japanese Picture Book on Hiroshima
  • 17.Latin American Fantasy as Heterogeneous: Between Neomedievalism and LatinAmericanism
  • 18.Cultural Appropriation of Polands Fantasy: The Cold War Saga o Wiedminie Moving into American Mainstream Culture
  • 19.Syncretism in Russian fantasy
  • 20.Mystification, Religious Imagery and Fantasy in Modern Tibetan Literature. .

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