War, Myths, and Fairy Tales
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, c
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Sara Buttsworth • Maartje Abbenhuis Editors
War, Myths, and Fairy Tales
Editors Sara Buttsworth School of Humanities University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
Maartje Abbenhuis School of Humanities University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN 978-981-10-2683-6 ISBN 978-981-10-2684-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2684-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016958037 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover image © Antiquarian Images / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Science+Business Media Singapore Pte Ltd. The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #22-06/08 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore
We would like to dedicate this book with all our love to our mothers, Carol Buttsworth and Jacintha Abbenhuis-van den Broek, and to our sisters Imogen Mirmikidis, Fleur Tomlinson, and Wiesje Steevensz-Abbenhuis. Mothers and sisters are vital to navigating paths of pins and paths of needles.
Contents
1 Introduction: Tales of War and Wonder—Reflecting on War, Myths, and Fairy Tales and the Breadcrumb Trails Between 1 Sara Buttsworth and Maartje Abbenhuis 2 And They Lived Happily Ever After? The Fable as Search for Meaning in Holocaust Cinema 25 Giacomo Lichtner 3 “The Boy with the Bread”: Consuming Hansel and Gretel in the Twenty-First Century 47 Sara Buttsworth 4 Abelardo Díaz Alfaro’s Tales: The Tragicomedy of the Dawn of US Intervention in Puerto Rico 71 Dannelle Gutarra 5 Once Upon a Nation: Fables and Fairy Tales in Canadian Plays About War 93 Lindsay Thistle
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6 Flying Home: Aestheticizing and Americanizing Experiences of Exile and Migration in the Second World War as Fairy Tales of Return and Restoration 117 JoAnn Conrad 7 Child Soldiers in Medieval(esque) Cinema 147 Peter Burkholder and David Rosen 8 “A Tr
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