The fairy tale world Abbreviations : tale type and motif index references Introduction : the fairy tale and the world Andrew Teverson Global or local : where do fairy tales belong Donald Haase Decolonizing the canon : critical challenges to Eurocentrism Cristina Bacchilega The Middle Eastern worlds contribution to fairy tale history Ulrich Marzolph The formation of the literary fairy tale in early modern Italy 1550 1636 Nancy L. Canepa Social change and the development of the fairy tale in France 1690 1799 Christine A. Jones National international transnational : the Brothers Grimm and their fairy tales Maria Tatar By forgotten hands : the role of translation in the emergence of the fairy tale Gillian Lathey Fairy tale in Africa : a contrast of centuries Ruth Finnegan Narratives of the southwest Indian Ocean : commonalities and localizations Lee Haring Fairy tales and folklore in South Africa Nadia van der Westhuizen Strangers and defiant maids : empire and the African folk narrative Andrew Teverson West African magical realism among the wonder genres Kim Anderson Sasser Francophone fairy tales in West Africa and the Caribbean Lewis C. Seifert This is not a fairy tale : Anansi and the web of narrative power Emily Zobel Marshall Decolonizing the curriculum : African fairy tales and literacies Vivian Yenika Agbaw Myths and folktales in Latin America John Bierhorst The politics and poetics of Märchen in Hawaiian language newspapers Marie Alohalani Brown Neal a. lester Sexes sexualities and gender in cinematic North and South American fairy tales : transforming Cinderellas Pauline Greenhill Gender sexuality and the fairy tale in contemporary American literature Jeana Jorgensen Fairy tales and digital culture Brittany Warman Fairy tale fan fiction and popular media Anne Kustritz Fairy tale worlds of South Asia Sadhana Naithani Lovely fairies and crafty ghosts in Indian tales Pamela Lothspeich Fairy tale in the Bollywood film Vijay Mishra Fairy tales in China : an ongoing evolution Juwen Zhang The fairy tale in contemporary Japanese literature and art Mayako Murai Memory trauma and history : fairy tale film in Korea Sung Ae Lee Fairies in a strange land : colonization migration and the invention of the Australian fairy tale Rebecca Anne do Rozario Renegotiating once upon a time : fairy tales in contemporary Australian writing Danielle Wood The European sources of the fairy tale : a case study of atu 171 the three bears Rose Williamson No fairy tales of their own : the English and the fairy tale from Thoms to Jacobs Jonathan Roper Fairy tales as childrens literature in the Netherlands and Flanders Vanessa Joosen Eco critical perspectives : nature and the supernatural in the Cinderella cycle Nicole A. Thesz Tales retold : fairy tales in contemporary European visual art Sarah Bonner New materialism and contemporary fairy tale fiction Amy Greenhough Of genres and geopolitics : the European fairy tale and the global novel Kimberly J. Lau