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Scaled for Success
Emerging from the confluence of Greco-Roman mythology and regional folklore, the mermaid has been an enduring motif in Western culture since the medieval period. It has also been disseminated more widely, initially through Western trade and colonisation and, more recently, through the increasing globalisation of media products and outlets.
Scaled for Successoffers the first detailed overview of the mermaids dispersal outside Europe. Complementing previous studies of the interrelationship between the mermaid and Mami Wata spirit in West Africa, this volume addresses the mermaids presence in a range of Middle Eastern, Asian, Australian, Latin American and North American contexts. Individual chapters identify the manner in which the mermaid has been variously syncretised and/or resignified in contexts as diverse as Indian public statuary, Thai cinema and Coney Islands annual Mermaid Parade.
Rather than lingering as a relic of a bygone age, the mermaid emerges as a versatile, dynamic and, above all,polyvalentfigure. Her prominence exemplifies the manner in which contemporary media-lore has extended the currency of established folkloric figures in new and often surprising ways. Analysing aspects of religious symbolism, visual art, literature and contemporary popular culture, this copiously illustrated volume profiles an intriguing and highly diverse phenomenon.
Philip Hayward is editor of the journalShimaand holds adjunct professor positions at the University of Technology Sydney and at Southern Cross University. His previous volume,Making a Splash: Mermaids (and Mermen) in 20th and 21st Century Audiovisual Media, was published by John Libbey Publishing/Indiana University Press in 2017.
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The little mermaid : based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
A little sea princess, longing to be human, trades her mermaid's tail for legs to win the love of a prince.
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‘I Have Seen the Sea’: Caribbean Aquatic Poetics in Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch
The polyvalent nature of water is one often explored in fiction by Caribbean writers, and this paper will consider the ways that the representations of mermaids act as an extension of this exploration. Mermaids are central to a number of folk traditions across the Caribbean region and its diaspora. On islands, including Trinidad, Martinique, Carriacou, and Haiti, with names such as Fairymaid, Mama Glo, and La Siren, mermaids are often regarded as mothers and protectresses of both the sea and the creatures within it. This paper will analyse the representation of the mermaid in Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch (2020) and consider how the novel utilises the mermaid and an aquatic poetics to explore Kamau Brathwaite’s conceptualisation of a submarine unity for the Caribbean.
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Bath time with Ariel
Shows the fun that Ariel has living in the water and demonstrates how children in the bath tub can have the same fun.
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The Little Mermaid : the story of Ariel
Ariel is fascinated with life on land. On one of her visits above the surface, she meets a human prince and falls in love. Determined to be with her true love, she makes a risky deal with an evil sea witch and trades her voice for legs. Ariel embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, but soon finds that the fate of her father's kingdom is in her hands.
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Marine creatures lost and found. The legend of mermaid
By coincidence, Dada, a famous Chinese marine blogger, discovered a 'mermaid specimen' in the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, which resembled the image of a mermaid in a 300-year-old Chinese book entitled Illustrated Album of Sea Miscellany. The intersection of time and space between the ancient and modern worlds intrigued Dada, so she travelled to each of the places where the mermaids were found according to the text of the book. From the mouth of the Pearl River to the Gulf of Tonkin, from China to the Philippines, Dada heard many legends about the mermaids in the book, after a long search, she finally saw the 'mermaids' she'd been waiting for.
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Mermaids are real!
\"Treasure and coral and song--that's what mermaids are made of. Take a peek into their secret magical world!\" -- Page [4] cover.
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Harry Styles as a Cecaelia: Sexuality, Representation and Media-lore in “Music for a Sushi Restaurant”
The music video for Harry Styles’s 2022 track “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” (directed by Aube Perrie) provides a surprising representation of the pop star (arguably at the peak of his career) appearing as a cecaelia (a monstrous figure with a human head, arms and torso giving way to tentacles around its midriff). The video is notable in two distinct contexts. First, in terms of Styles’s trajectory as a popular music performer who has received intense media attention because of his fan base, artistic persona and ambiguous sexual identity; and second, in terms of the articulation of a relatively minor media-loric (i.e. modern folkloric) entity in a high profile popular cultural context. The article discusses these aspects before moving to an analysis of the music video showing how Styles’s role as a cecaelia serves as a representation of his career position, public profile and desire to assert his creative-industrial agency in the early 2020s. The music video thereby illustrates the potential of media-loric figures to represent complex themes in contemporary cultural discourse.
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