Representations of Fairy Tales in Contemporary Literature and Art

• Project/Area Number: 15K02196
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Art at large
• Research Institution: Kanagawa University
• Principal Investigator: Murai Mayako 神奈川大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (20347769)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
• Keywords: おとぎ話 / 表象文化 / 現代美術 / 国際比較 / 民話 / 動物 / ジェンダー / 絵本 / 環境批評 / 動物研究 / 比較文化 / 昔話 / 老年学 / 現代文学 / 比較文学 / 表象文化論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project aimed to dis-orient and re-orient the Euro-American-centric tendency still dominant in global fairy-tale studies today by analysing fairy-tale adaptations in contemporary literature and art from transcultural and transdisciplinary perspectives. It also creatively explored the new cultural significance of traditional fairy tales in contemporary society through collaborations with writers and artists.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の成果の学術的意義は、これまで西欧を中心に展開されてきた国際的なおとぎ話研究の知見を踏まえたうえで、非西洋文化圏の視点を取り入れた新たな批評の枠組みを提示し、当該分野の研究の多文化的な転換を促したことにある。研究成果は国際学会での発表、日本での国際学会の主催、英語圏の学術誌への寄稿、アメリカとイギリスでの単著および共著の出版等を通して広く公開し、国際的に反響を呼んだ。社会的意義は、現代のグローバルなおとぎ話文化の創出と受容について、従来の西洋中心的傾向とは異なる見地からの解釈を提示することで、より多文化的かつ通文化的な文化理解を促進し、多文化共生社会の実現に貢献したことにある。

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] Leeds Arts University/Kingston University(英国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Hawaii, Manoa/Brown University(米国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Antwerp(ベルギー)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Tasmania/University of Queensland/University of Technology, Sydney(オーストラリア)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Mainz(ドイツ)
• [Int'l Joint Research]
• [Int'l Joint Research] ハワイ大学マノア校/ブラウン大学(米国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] アントワープ大学(ベルギー)
• [Int'l Joint Research] クイーンズランド大学/タスマニア大学/シドニー工科大学(オーストラリア)
• [Int'l Joint Research] エルサレム大学(イスラエル)
• [Int'l Joint Research] ヴュルツブルク大学(ドイツ)
• [Int'l Joint Research] ハワイ大学マノア校/ブラウン大学(米国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] アントワープ大学(ベルギー)
• [Int'l Joint Research] タスマニア大学/クイーンズランド大学/シドニー大学(オーストラリア)
• [Int'l Joint Research] ケンブリッジ大学/オックスフォード大学/グラスゴー大学(英国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] ローザンヌ大学(スイス)
• [Int'l Joint Research]
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Antwerp(Belgium)
• [Int'l Joint Research] Maastricht University/Tilburg University(オランダ)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Tasmania/Macquarie University(Australia)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Central Oklahoma/University of Hawaii/Brigham Young University(米国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Winnipeg(Canada)
• [Int'l Joint Research]
• [Journal Article] Sewing Wedding Dresses for Interspecies Marriages: Tomoko Konoike’s Reimagining of Animal Bridegroom Tales after the Tohoku Earthquake (2019)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Journal Title: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment Volume: 26.3
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] 森と狼の（脱）植民地化 ウォルター・クレインと飯野和好による「赤ずきん」の挿絵 (2018)
  • Author(s): 村井まや子
  • Journal Title: 神奈川大学人文学会 人文研究 Volume: 196 Pages: 99-126
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] Murmurings of Furs: Curating the Exhibition “Tomoko Konoike: Fur Story” (2018)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Journal Title: Gramarye: The Journal of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction Volume: 14
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] “Domesticating” Nature: Amy Stein’s Photographic Restaging of Human-Animal Encounters (2018)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Journal Title: Narrative Culture Volume: 4.2
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Giving Voice to Animals in Visual Representations of Fairy Tales (2019)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Organizer: International Research Society for Children's Literature Biennial Congress
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Re-Visualising Fairy Tales for Multispecies Co-Existence: Kazuyoshi Iino’s Picturebook Illustrations for Grimm’s “Little Red Riding Hood” (2019)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Organizer: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment-UKI Biennial Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow" and the Art of Translating Animals in Fairy Tales (2019)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Organizer: Bridging East and West: Hovhannes Toumanian and the Art of Fairy Tale Translation
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] “The Woman Who Painted a Jaguar”: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Animals in Ana Maria Pacheco’s Visual Recasting of Amazonian Folktales (2019)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Organizer: University of Worcester School of Humanities Research Seminar Series
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] (De)Colonising Nature through Illustrations: The Illustrations for “Little Red Riding Hood” by Walter Crane and Kazuyoshi Iino (2018)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Organizer: International Society for Folk Narrative Research Interim Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Sewing Wedding Dresses for Interspecies Marriages: Tomoko Konoike’s Reimagining of Animal Bridegroom Tales after the Tohoku Earthquake (2017)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Organizer: Thinking with Stories in Times of Conflict: A Conference in Fairy-Tale Studies
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] How to Cook a Jaguar: The Folkloric Motif of Human-Animal Transformation in the Works of Angela Carter and Ana Maria Pacheco (2017)
  • Author(s): 村井まや子
  • Organizer: Fireworks: The Visual Imagination of Angela Carter
  • Place of Presentation: イギリス、The Royal West of England Academy
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] (De)Formed and Abandoned: Seizo Tashima’s Installation Based on “The Little Mermaid” in a Former Dormitory for People with Hansen's Disease (2017)
  • Author(s): 村井まや子
  • Organizer: Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Fairy-Tale Adaptations across Cultures
  • Place of Presentation: 神奈川大学みなとみらいエクステンションセンター
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Transformations of Cinderella in Japan (2016)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Organizer: Centre de Traduction Littéraire de Lausanne conférence: Des citrouilles en carrosses
  • Place of Presentation: University of Lausanne
  • Year and Date: 2016-04-14
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Domesticating Nature: Amy Stein’s Photographic Restaging of Human-Animal Encounters” (2016)
  • Author(s): 村井まや子
  • Organizer: International Society for Folk Narrative Research
  • Place of Presentation: アメリカ、マイアミ
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Wolf Girls in the Woods: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West (2015)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Organizer: ICU Centre for Gender Studies Symposium: Fairy Tales: Their Legacy and Transformation
  • Place of Presentation: 国際基督教大学
  • Year and Date: 2015-11-07
  • Invited
• [Presentation] The Company of Snakes: Hiromi Kawakami’s Tale of Un-Metamorphosis (2015)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Organizer: American Folklore Society 2015 Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: The Westin Long Beach
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-16
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Happily Ever After for the Old in Japanese Fairy Tales (2015)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Organizer: The Platform for a Cultural History of Children’s Media Workshop: Linking Childhood and Old Age
  • Place of Presentation: University of Antwerp
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-21
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Book] Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures (2020)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi編
  • Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• [Book] The Fairy Tale World（Andrew Teverson編） (2019)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781138217577
• [Book] 自然・人間・神々 時代と地域の交差する場（上原雅文編） (2019)
  • Author(s): 村井まや子
  • Publisher: 御茶の水書房
  • ISBN: 9784275021038
• [Book] The Routledge Companion to Fairy-Tale Cultures and Media （Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, and Lauren Bosc編） (2018)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 113894615X
• [Book] Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media （Vanessa Joosen編） (2018)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • ISBN: 1496815165
• [Book] Routledge Companion to Fairy-Tale Cultures and Media, edited by Pauline Greenhill et al. (2017)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Publisher: Routledge
• [Book] From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West (2015)
  • Author(s): Mayako Murai
  • Total Pages: 178
  • Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• [Book] 『〈68年〉の性ー変容する社会と「わたし」の身体』（小松原由理編）所収 (2015)
  • Author(s): 村井まや子
  • Total Pages: 27
  • Publisher: 青弓社
• [Remarks] Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale
  • URL: http://www.human.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/fairytale/
• [Remarks] Storytelling Table Runner
  • URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1740846002811589/
• [Funded Workshop] Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Fairy-Tale Adaptations across Cultures (2017)
  • Place of Presentation: 神奈川大学みなとみらいエクステンションセンター
  • Year and Date: 2017-03-29