The Beastly Bride: and Other Tales of the Animal People is DONE

[ellen_datlow]

Terri and I are about to hand in the fourth anthology in the "mythic" series begun with The Green Man. It's been a long haul and I thank all the contributors (and those whose stories we didn't buy for the book) for their hard work and patience.

Here is the Table of Contents--the book should be out from Viking in spring 2010.

The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People
Table of Contents
Preface by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Introduction by Terri Windling
Island Lake by E. Catherine Tobler
The Puma’s Daughter by Tanith Lee
Map of Seventeen by Christopher Barzak
The Selkie Speaks by Delia Sherman
Bear’s Bride by Johanna Sinisalo
The Abominable Child’s Tale by Carol Emshwiller
The Hikikomori by Hiromi Goto
The Comeuppance of Creegus Maxin by Gregory Frost
Ganesha by Jeffrey Ford
The Elephant’s Bride by Jane Yolen
The Children of Cadmus by Ellen Kushner
The White Doe Mourns Her Childhood by Jeanine Hall Gailey
The White Doe’s Love Song by Jeanine Hall Gailey
The White Doe Decides by Jeanine Hall Gailey
Coyote and Valorosa by Terra L. Gearheart
One Thin Dime by Stewart Moore
The Monkey Bride by Midori Snyder
Pishaach by Shweta Narayan
The Salamander Fire by Marly Youmans
The Margay’s Children by Richard Bowes
Thumbleriggery and Fledglings by Steve Berman
The Flock by Lucius Shepard
The Children of the Shark God by Peter Beagle
Rosina by Nan Fry
Further Reading

Comments

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

I am tremendously excited about this topic and this lineup.*

*Um, seeing the post above mine ... not in a "*love* your hamster" kind of a way, just in a "my dissertation was about these stories" kind of a way. The clarification seemed like a good call.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Be kind if you review the book :-)

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

What field was your dissertation in? Sounds like a fantastic topic for several different disciplines.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

I'd never dream of being otherwise - the first three are all favorites. :)

Unt, thanks! The diss. was English with a Comp. Lit. twist, and I'm currently revising it for publication (and thus, hoping that publishing companies will share your opinion). The official title was "Fantastic Emigres: Fairy Tales in a Literary Diaspora." I basically used transformation tales - "Beauty and the Beast," "The Blue Bird," "The Frog Prince" - as examples of how fairy tales were normalized and mainstreamed to the point that their subversive elements overflowed into a new genre ... fantasy, making for a kind of a meta-transformation-tale. Grad. school was marvelous. Now, the grading that comes with being a professor ... that's another story. And, with that, back to the 150 grades that need to be done by TOMORROW ....

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

P.S. - Just noticed the fact that your name's in the line-up - congratulations!

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

Was the mainstreaming of it related to a shift from the oral tradition to the more official written literature at all? If so I now want to know the sociolinguistic story behind it, and how it might relate to the subversive side of fanfic.

I think I'll be relieved that I've never had the final say on grades.
And thank you!