War, Myths, and Fairy Tales

Introduction Tales of War and Wonder: Reflecting on War, Myths, and Fairytales, and the Breadcrumb Trails Between.- And They Lived Happily Ever After? The Fable as Search for Meaning in Holocaust Cinema.- “The Boy with the Bread”: Consuming Hansel and Gretel in the Twenty-First Century.- Abelardo Díaz Alfaro’s tales: The Tragicomedy of the Dawn of United States Intervention in Puerto Rico.- Once Upon a Nation: Fables and Fairy Tales in Canadian Plays about War.- Flying Home: Aestheticizing and Americanizing Experiences of Exile and Migration in the Second World War as Fairy Tales of Return and Restoration.- Child Soldiers in Medieval(esque) Cinema.- “A Trap of Our Own Making”: Mark Twain and the Mechanized Warfare of King Arthur’s Court.- “Life Was a State in Which a War Was On”: A. S. Byatt’s Portrayal of War and Norse Mythology in Ragnarok: The End of the Gods.- War and the Ruby Tree. The Motif of the Unborn Generations in Jewish Women's Story-Telling.