"Whether watching Studio Ghibli adaptations of British children's books, visiting Harry Potter sites in Britain or eating at Alice in Wonderland-themed restaurants in Tokyo, the Japanese have a close and multifaceted relationship with British children's literature. In this, the first...

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1. Verfasser:	Butler, Catherine 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2023
Ausgabe:	First published in Great Britain
Schriftenreihe:	Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature
Schlagworte:	Rezeption Kinderliteratur Englisch Japan Children's literature, English / Appreciation / Japan Children's literature, English / Translations into Japanese / History and criticism Children's literature, English / Adaptations Children's literature, Japanese / English influences Contents tourism Literary criticism Japan / Relations / Great Britain Great Britain / Relations / Japan Japan / In literature England / In literature
Zusammenfassung:	"Whether watching Studio Ghibli adaptations of British children's books, visiting Harry Potter sites in Britain or eating at Alice in Wonderland-themed restaurants in Tokyo, the Japanese have a close and multifaceted relationship with British children's literature. In this, the first comprehensive study to explore this engagement, Catherine Butler considers its many manifestations in print, on the screen, in tourist locations and throughout Japanese popular culture. Taking stock of the influence of literary works such as Gulliver's Travels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Tom's Midnight Garden, and the Harry Potter series, this lively account draws on literary criticism, translation, film and tourist studies to explore how British children's books have been selected, translated, understood, adapted and reworked into Japanese commercial, touristic and imaginative culture. Using theoretically informed case studies this book will consider both individual texts and their wider cultural contexts, translations and adaptations (such as the numerous adaptations of British children's books by Studio Ghibli and others), the dissemination of distinctive tropes such as magical schools into Japanese children's literature and popular culture, and the ways in which British children's books and their settings have become part of way that Japanese people understand Britain itself"-- Introduction: Writing from the outside in -- Wonderland or Looking-Glass?: Meiji Japan through the lens of children's literature -- Britain and the origins of Japanese children's literature -- Canons to the West, canons to the East: British children's books in Japan -- Hayao Miyazaki and British children's literature -- Children's literature, tourism and the Japanese imagination -- Postscript: Reading from the inside out
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xv, 209 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:	9781350195479 9781350195523