SPEAKER Animal Shape-Shifters...HIGASHI-OJI ST SHIRAKAWA ST かに道楽 KYOTO CITY BUS 5, 204...

かに道楽 SHIRAKAWA ST HIGASHI-OJI ST KYOTO CITY BUS 5, 204 バス停北白川校前 Kitashirakawako-mae KANIDORAKU KYOTO CITY BUS 5, 17, 32, 100, 102, 203, 204 バス停銀閣寺道 Ginkakuji-michi 京都大学 KYOTO UNIVERSITY 白川通東大路通IMADEGAWA ST 今出川通 MIKAGE ST 御蔭通東アジア人文情報学研究センター INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES CHION-JI TEMPLE 知恩寺 SHIGAGOEMICHI ST 志賀越道 Wednesday, July 29th, 18:00h Animal Shape-Shifters from Japanese Folktales to North-American Fiction Luciana Cardi SPEAKER In recent years Japanese folklore, reworked in literature, popular culture, and visual media, has enjoyed a huge popularity among Western audiences, to the extent that Euro-American writers and filmmakers have often appropriated it in their works. However, the incorpora- tion of Japanese folktales into Western narratives is not a recent phenomenon of the digital era, as we may be tempted to believe. This talk explores how Japanese folktales were adapted for American readers in the late 19th century, in a period that witnessed the establish- ment of folklore as a discipline—with a widespread fascination for fairy tales and a revival of Gothic fiction through Stoker’s vampire narrative. Beginning with these considerations, the presentation will focus especially on two early 20th-century novels featuring the shape-shifting fox trickster from Japanese folktales: John Luther Long’s The Fox-Woman and Winnifred Eaton’s Tama. In so doing, it will shed light on the literary and ideological issues behind the reception of Japanese folklore in that period—for instance, the intersections between Japanese fox lore, the Gothic narratives revolv- ing around the figure of the vampire, the fear of miscegenation, and the post-Victorian changes in the models of femininity. Luciana Cardi is Lecturer in both Japanese and Compara- tive Studies, and Italian Language and Culture at Osaka University. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures (Wayne State UP, 2020). She has published in journals and edited volumes such as Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture (Lexington, 2020), Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia (Brill, 2018), and Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World (ABC-CLIO, 2016). Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’Asia Orientale ISEAS École Française d’Extrême-Orient EFEO EFEO | Tel. 075-701-0882 E-mail [email protected] ISEAS | Tel. 075-703-3015 E-mail [email protected] École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS) 29 Bettō-chō, Kitashirakawa, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, 606-8276 Japan This lecture will be held on Zoom. If you are not in our mailing lists, please contact us by email.

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かに道楽

SHIR

AKA

HIG

ASH

I-OJI

KYOTO CITY BUS 5, 204

バス停北白川校前Kitashirakawako-mae

KANIDORAKU

KYOTO CITY BUS5, 17, 32, 100, 102, 203, 204

バス停銀閣寺道Ginkakuji-michi京都大学KYOTO UNIVERSITY

白川通

東大路通 IMADEGAWA ST 今出川通

MIKAGE ST 御蔭通

東アジア人文情報学研究センター

INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCHIN HUMANITIES

CHION-JI TEMPLE知恩寺

SHIGAGOEMICHI ST志賀越道

Wednesday, July 29th, 18:00h

AnimalShape-Shifters

from JapaneseFolktales to

North-AmericanFiction

Luciana Cardi SPEAKERIn recent years Japanese folklore, reworked in literature, popular culture, and visual media, has enjoyed a huge popularity among Western audiences, to the extent that Euro-American writers and �lmmakers have often appropriated it in their works. However, the incorpora-tion of Japanese folktales into Western narratives is not a recent phenomenon of the digital era, as we may be tempted to believe. This talk explores how Japanese folktales were adapted for American readers in the late 19th century, in a period that witnessed the establish-ment of folklore as a discipline—with a widespread fascination for fairy tales and a revival of Gothic �ction through Stoker’s vampire narrative. Beginning with these considerations, the presentation will focus especially on two early 20th-century novels featuring the shape-shifting fox trickster from Japanese folktales: John Luther Long’s The Fox-Woman and Winnifred Eaton’s Tama. In so doing, it will shed light on the literary and ideological issues behind the reception of Japanese folklore in that period—for instance, the intersections between Japanese fox lore, the Gothic narratives revolv-ing around the �gure of the vampire, the fear of miscegenation, and the post-Victorian changes in the models of femininity.

Luciana Cardi is Lecturer in both Japanese and Compara-tive Studies, and Italian Language and Culture at Osaka University. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures (Wayne State UP, 2020). She has published in journals and edited volumes such as Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture (Lexington, 2020), Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia (Brill, 2018), and Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World (ABC-CLIO, 2016).

Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’Asia Orientale ISEAS

École Française d’Extrême-OrientEFEO

EFEO | Tel. 075-701-0882 E-mail [email protected] | Tel. 075-703-3015 E-mail [email protected]

École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS) 29 Bettō-chō, Kitashirakawa, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, 606-8276 Japan

This lecture will be held on Zoom. If you are not in our mailing lists, please contact us by email.