Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1. The Reconfiguration of Children and Children’s Literature in the Culture Industry

2. Misreading Children and the Fate of the Book

3. Why Fantasy Matters Too Much

4. The Multicultural Contradictions of International Children’s Literature: Three Complaints and Three Wishes

5. What Makes a Repulsive Frog So Appealing: Applying Memetics to Folk and Fairy Tales

6. And Nobody Lived Happily Ever After: The Feminist Fairy Tale after Forty Years of Fighting for Survival

7. Storytelling as Spectacle in the Globalized World

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

University of Minnesota, USA

Reviews

'Many of [the] short essays are quite fascinating.' - Art and Christianity"I have come to realization that Jack Zipes is the Bob Dylan of children's literary criticism. Like Dylan, it is worth listening very carefully to what Zipes has to say." - Jan Susina, Illinois State University, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Fall 2009 Vol. 34 No. 3

'Many of [the] short essays are quite fascinating.' - Art and Christianity