The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy

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This handbook is the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of fantasy outside the Anglo-American hegemony. While most academic studies of fantasy follow the well-trodden path of focusing on Tolkien, Rowling, and others, our collection spotlights rich and unique fantasy literatures in India, Australia, Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, China, and many other areas of Europe, Asia, and the global South. The first part focuses on the theoretical aspects of fantasy, broadening and modifying existing definitions to accommodate the global reach of the genre. The second part contains essays illuminating specific cultures, countries, and religious or ethnic traditions. From Aboriginal myths to (self)-representation of Tibet, from the appropriation of the Polish Witcher by the American pop culture to modern Greek fantasy that does not rely on stories of Olympian deities, and from Israeli vampires to Talmudic sages, this collection is an indispensable reading for anyone interested in fantasy fiction and global literature.  Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction Fantasy Faction(s) The Structure of This Book Part I: Theory and Methodology What Is Fantasy and Who Decides? Self and Other Game of the Impossible Journeying Across the Border Works Cited Fantasy as Genre: On Defining the Field of Study Resistance to Genre Defining Fantasy: A Brief Overview Fantasy/Fantasy/Fantastic: Contested Terms Fantasy and Genre: Obstacles and Assumptions Fantasy as Genre: Possible Approaches Conclusion Works Cited A Biocultural Taxonomy The Supernatural Imagination Faith, Folklore, Fantasy The Reading Brain and Fantasy’s Narratology Conclusion Works Cited Allotopia: A World-Building Narrative Introduction The Concept of Allotopia: A Brief History Eco’s Definition of Allotopia Allotopia as a Fictional Heterocosm The Topographical Otherness Closing Remarks Works Cited A Thousand and One Book: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Serialized Fantasy Works Cited Crosshatch Fantasy: Unsettling Portals, Crisis Heterotopias, and Comings-of-Age Introduction Portal Fantasy Worlds as Heterotopias Crises Heterotopias and Coming-of-Age Crosshatch Fantasies: Crossing Over into the ‘Real’ Reading as Heterotopic: Contamination and Transformation Works Cited Hybrid Secondary Worlds: Animal Fantasy Hybrid Secondary Worlds: Animal Fantasy Scales of Animality Adjusting Animal Worlds Home of Tooth and Claw You Can’t Go Home Again Conclusion Works Cited “How Did you Go about Saving a City? She Googled it”: Urban Fantasy Cities as Communities of Citizens Works Cited Punk Subculture in Urban Fantasy: Life on the Border Youthful Revolt: Punk in the 1980s Transgressive Art, Punk, Fantasy Punk, Folk, and Faerie Faerie-Filtered Punk Philosophy: The Other Way to Think Works Cited Part II: Countries and Cultures History and Other (Colonial) Fantasies: Indigenous Time Play in Cleverman The Past Is Never Dead. It Is Not Even Past. The Past Is Never Where You Think You Left It ... What If You Came Back Now/To Our New World, the City Roaring He Kakano i Ruia Mai i Rangiātea Works Cited Chinese Danmei: Male-Male Romance, Women’s Fantasy, and the Feminization of Labor in the Digital Age Works Cited Between Scylla and Charybdis: A Survey of Greek Fantasy Fiction A Lost Road The Case Against the Fantastic Fantasy Ascendant The Advent of Self-publishing Toward the Creation of a National Scene Conclusion Works Cited Re-imagining Hindu Mythology in the Twenty-First Century: Amish Tripathi and Indian Fantasy Fiction in English Amish Tripathi and Indian Fantasy Literature Humanization of the Divine Scientized Mythology Conclusion Works Cited Wilderness as Wonderland: Jewish Fantasy from Ancient to Modern RbbH’s Travels A Share of the World to Come Anti-hero, Chaos, and Fantasy Bialik—A Modern Implementation Works Cited Israeli Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fantastical Chronotopes and the Modern Promised Land The Promised Land Chronotope Judaic Israeli SFF Universalist Israeli SFF Hybrid Judaic and Universalist Israeli SFF Local and Global SFF Works Cited Looking for an Italian Style fantasy A Brief Archeology of the Italian Fantastic The Twentieth Century and the Slow Affirmation of Italian Fantasy The Fantasy Baby Boom and the 2012 Crisis Recent Years: The Revival of Indies and Self-publishers Works Cited The Little Red Gloves: Apocalyptic Fantasy and the Bodhisattva of Mercy in a Japanese Picture Book on Hiroshima The Development and Characteristics of Modern Japanese Fantasy Literature for Adults and Children Kannon in Miraculous Buddhist Traditions The Little Red Gloves—Picture Book and Apocalyptic Fantasy Conclusion Works Cited Latin American Fantasy as Heterogeneous Literature: Between Neomedievalism and Latin Americanism Introduction Down the Rift: Space-in-Between, Cultural Appropriation and Heterogeneous Literature in Latin American Tradition Liliana Bodoc’s Saga de Los Confines: A Fantasy Approach to the Conquest of Latin America Verónica Murguía’s Loba: Latin America through the Lens on an Imaginated Middle Ages Conclusions Works Cited Cultural Appropriation of Poland’s Fantasy: The Cold War Saga o Wiedźminie Moving into American Mainstream Culture Polish Fantasy and Folklore Polish History and the Saga o Wiedźminie The Trap of Translating the Saga o Wiedźminie Disenchanting Anti-Fairy Tales Justifiable Appropriation: The Saga o Wiedźminie Moving to Netflix Conclusion Works Cited Syncretism in Russian Fantasy The Triumph of Fantasy in Russia A Model Case Study Works Cited Mystification, Religious Imagery, and Fantasy in Modern Tibetan Literature The Development of Modern Tibetan Literature The Fantasy of Tibet Is Tibet a Shangri-la? Conclusion Works Cited Index