A Hood Is Not a Hat: On Translating Fairy-Tale Fashion

This article explores the process of translating Ogawa Yōko’s short story, “Zukin kurabu” (The Riding Hood Club) from Japanese into English, with a focus on the theme of fashion, clothing, and costume, and against the backdrop of the history of Japanese translations of Perrault’s and the Grimms’ stories of “Little Red Riding Hood.” The article considers how the translation process itself may inform an investigation into fashion and sewing in fairy-tale retellings across languages and cultures. Translating this story, with reference to its accompanying illustrations, highlighted the complex functions of ideas of “Japanese-ness,” “Western-ness,” and gender in Japanese retellings of European fairy tales

Predictors of Change in Mother-Child Language Style Matching in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence

Intimate partner violence (IPV) can negatively influence the mother-child relationship, including frequent mismatched behavioral attunement. Language style matching (LSM) is a component of behavioral matching that measures the similarity between how individuals use various common function words. Research examining mother-child LSM is limited, and no research has examined whether exposure to IPV impacts dyadic changes in LSM over time. Using a community sample of 182 women recruited for a larger longitudinal study, we evaluated changes in LSM during a standardized mother-child interaction from age 4 to 7. We found that mothers’ reports of IPV in the household when children were 5–7 years of age predicted increases in mother-child LSM over time, but early IPV (ages 0 to 4) did not predict change in LSM. As children age and develop more sophisticated regulatory skills, they may attempt to attune more closely to their mothers as a result of recent IPV exposure

Challenging the Operations of Power in the Pandemic Plot: A Hydrofeminist Reading of Water in Sarah Hall’s Burntcoat

This paper explores the motif of water in Sarah Hall’s novel Burntcoat (2021), written during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a symbol of interconnectedness and transformation. It examines how water challenges conventional boundaries between identity, the body, and the environment. Drawing on Astrida Neimanis’ concept of hydrofeminism, the analysis investigates how Hall employs watery imagery to address themes of corporeality and the dynamic interplay between humanity and nature in the context of a global pandemic. Through a hydrofeminist lens, this study highlights how Burntcoat engages with the pandemic’s realities, encouraging readers to reimagine their relationship with the natural world. By positioning Burntcoat within hydrofeminist discourse, the paper underscores water as a metaphor for dissolving rigid boundaries and fostering a holistic understanding of existence, thereby contributing to the literary analysis of watery imagery in “corona literature.

Implicit Antisemitism and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory on Twitter: Linking Narratives in a Mixed-Methods Study

Social media platforms are known to foster extremist rhetoric and ideologies, including antisemitism. Antisemitic conspiracy theories are often spread via mainstream social media platforms, especially during times of civic unrest. The COVID-19 pandemic created an opportunity for the alignment of long-standing antisemitic conspiracies with an international health crisis. This paper applies a mixed-methods approach of data analysis and qualitative coding to examine connections between COVID-19 conspiracy theories and antisemitism in US tweets. We identify six prominent categories of COVID-19 conspiracy present on Twitter (now known as X), each of which overlaps with common themes seen in antisemitic conspiracy theories. This conspiratorial content may be less likely to violate social media hate speech policies but nonetheless contributes to extremist discourse

ずきん倶楽部 The Riding Hood Club: From Fairy Tales Lost and Found, written by Ogawa Yōko, illustrated by Higami Kumiko (Tokyo: Hōmusha 2006; Poplar 2012)

This is the first publication of Lucy Fraser’s translation of Ogawa Yōko’s short story “Zukin kurabu” (The Riding Hood Club) from Japanese into English. Ogawa’s tale, from the 2006 collection Fairy Tales Lost and Found, responds creatively to the story of “Little Red Riding Hood” with a focus on the history and significance of the hood as a piece of clothing

Surviving “Twin Pandemics”: Diverse Resiliencies of Chinese Immigrant Mothers in the US

Based on virtual ethnography, interviews, and personal experience narratives collected in 2020–2023, this study examines the stories and resiliencies of Chinese immigrant mothers in the US during the “twin pandemics” of COVID-19 and racisms. By examining critical perspectives on the concepts of resiliencies in diverse fields, including folklore studies, ecology, psychology, ethnomusicology, and public health, and integrating individual, cultural, and political resilience frameworks, this study considers how personal narratives can offer insights into our understanding of how diverse forms of resiliencies have been cultivated and played roles in constituting Chinese immigrant mothers’ racial, ethnic, and gendered subjectivities and agencies