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Publication : La réutilisation des contes, mythes et légendes en fantasy jeunesse, de Eunice Dos Santos Martins

Eunice Dos Santos Martins, La réutilisation des contes, mythes et légendes en fantasy jeunesse, The Book Edition.

La fantasy est un genre profondément anglo-saxon et il s’agit en France d’un phénomène reconnu assez récemment en tant que tel, notamment en littérature de jeunesse. Elle est parvenue à s’imposer en tant que genre littéraire à part entière à la suite du succès du Seigneur des anneaux et de Harry Potter qui a ouvert les portes à de nouveaux auteurs de fantasy jeunesse.

La fantasy est un genre littéraire qui s’inscrit en héritière de la longue tradition des mythes et des contes où l’on ne cesse de raviver les épisodes bibliques (Le Monde de Narnia) ou les mythes arthuriens, (L’Épée dans la pierre). Il ne faut donc pas s’étonner alors de voir la fantasy reprendre de manière plus ou moins explicite les mêmes personnages et les mêmes schémas narratifs. Conformément à l’analyse de Bettelheim sur le conte merveilleux, les œuvres de fantasy ouvrent l’imaginaire de l’enfant vers d’autres horizons : il part en voyage dans un pays mystérieux, accomplit des prouesses, et revient admiré par tous.
La réutilisation des contes, mythes et légendes en fantasy jeunesse est un fait indiscutable. C’est ce que nous avons essayé de démontrer à partir de 4 œuvres de fantasy jeunesse, La Quête d’Ewilan, Prisonnier des Vikings, La Quête de Deltora, La Guerre des fées, auxquelles nous avons appliqué également le schéma quinaire du conte.

Disponible sur le site de The Book Edition : http://www.thebookedition.com/la-reutilisation-des-contes-en-fantasy-eunice-dos-santos-martins-p-92547.html

CFP: Edited Collection on Dark Fairy Tales in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (20 octobre)

CFP: Edited Collection on Dark Fairy Tales in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Scholarly essays are sought for a collection on the “dark/gothic” fairy tale motif in children’s and young adult literature. One of the most popular and long standing traditions in literature for youth, fairy tales have always had elements of fantastical horror, dark motifs, and other Gothic themes built into them. Cannibalism, murders, despair, rape, kidnapping, reincarnations, broken families and many other horrific elements are to be found in these stories. Countless experts insist that their inclusion was, and still is, vital to the growth and maturation of the child reader. The melding of the traditional fairy tale and Gothic literature themes help the reader not only to see the positive aspects of life, but the darker side as well. Ghosts and ghouls, graveyards, ancient houses, and other such spooky elements allow the reader to transpose their fears into the fairy tale, analyze them, and grow past that obstacle.

Books such as The Graveyard Book (Gaiman), Coraline (Gaiman), Red Riding Hood (Blakely-Cartwright), The Book of Lost Things (Connolly), Cinder (Meyer), Beastly (Flinn), and Fablehaven (Mull), to name but a few, provide example of such modern stories which expose young readers to both the positive and negative sides of life, to love and hate, to victory and defeat, etc. Such dark/Gothic motifs helped foster the longevity of the traditional fairy tales for hundreds of years, as well as thematically drive their modern counterparts.

Focusing upon contemporary children’s and young adult literature, classic fairy tales, and modern retelling’s thereof, this collection is calling upon academics, scholars, researchers, students, and lovers of fairy tales to submit abstracts of 250 to 300 words for consideration. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

-Critical and theoretical approaches
-The child as fairy tale hero
-The role of the female hero
-The “monster” as fairy tale hero
-Retellings of classic fairy tales (Red Riding Hood, Beastly, Zel, etc.)
-Comic and graphic novel adaptations
-Fairy tale structure in non-traditional fairy tale texts (The Graveyard Book, Coraline, Someone Comes to Town/Someone Leaves Town, etc.)
-Societal/psychological/cultural implications of dark fairy tales in literature for children and young adults
-Dark fairy tales and popular culture
-Coming of age issues (sexuality, maturity, etc.) in young adult “fairy tales”

Please note that this is a collection that focuses on children’s and young adult literature with dark fairy tale elements. This is not a collection on fairy tales. As such, please focus your abstracts accordingly.

Please send abstracts of 250 to 300 words to Tanya Jones and Joe Abbruscato at editors@lilredwritinghood.com by October 20, 2012. Please include contact information, CV, and a short bio. This collection has already been discussed with agents at McFarland, though other publishing companies are possible.

CFP: The Modern Day Fairy Tale in Film and Television (Deadlline May 14th)

The Modern Day Fairy Tale in Film and Television (Deadlline May 14th)

SAMLA November 9-11th, 2012
contact email:
shane.trayers@maconstate.edu

The Modern Day Fairy Tale in Film and Television
(Popular Culture Panel)
SAMLA November 9-11, 2012
Durham, North Carolina

Fairy tales never seem to go out of style. This panel seeks papers that discuss the significance and implications of works that take traditional fairy tales and make them modern. They may take elements of fairy tales or the whole tales themselves and revise or rework them, but there is still some basis in traditional fairy tale. These tales may also be reworked in order to show a more modern sense of race, class, or gender as well or may swap characters or roles.

Examples of these works includes (but are not limited to) the following:
Once Upon a Time
Grimm
Hanna
Penelope
Red Riding Hood
Ella Enchanted
Pan’s Labyrinth
Stardust
Harry Potter

Please submit a 250 word abstract and a short bio (no longer than 200 words) to shane.trayers@maconstate.edu by May 14th, 2012.