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Making a Multispecies Fairy-Tale Library

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Making a Multispecies Fairy-Tale Library (EN)
Murai, Mayako
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2023-10-29
What kind of multispecies story-scape may emerge if we make a library of multicultural fairy tales by classifying them according to the experiences of other-than-humans? When re-classified from a multispecies point of view, the same old stories may reveal hitherto unnoticed narratives that have been unfolding in the more-than-human world. In this essay, I will first point out the anthropocentric biases in the tale classification system known as the Aarne-Thompson-Uther tale type index, which has been used widely by international researchers working on folktales and other kinds of traditional narratives. I will then explore the possibilities of repurposing the existing classification system for designing a new framework that would better reflect other-than-human worldviews by shifting the focus from human-centred dramas to multispecies relationalities. Finally, I will explain my idea of making a Multispecies Fairy-Tale Library across different narrative traditions and suggest possible uses of this library for imagining a multispecies future. (EN)
stories (EN)
Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies (EN)
multispecies (EN)
classification (EN)
Comparative Literature (EN)
Synthesis (EN)
multispecies narratives (EN)
multispecies survival (EN)
fairy tale (EN)
animal (EN)
re-storying (EN)
tale type (EN)
folktale (EN)
ATU index (EN)
Synthesis
English
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EN)
1791-5155
Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies; No. 15 (2022): Re-Storying the World for Multispecies Survival; 170-184 (EN)
Copyright (c) 2023 Mayako Murai (EN)
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