Aesopic voices : re-framing truth through concealed ways of presentation in the 20th and 21st centuries / edited by Gert Reifarth & Philip Morrisey.

"Our collection of essays based on papers presented at the conference Aesopic Voices: Re-framing Truth in Twentieth-Century Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fables, held in Melbourne in February 2008..." -- P. 10.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Aesopic Voices : A Foreword / Gert Reifarth and Philip Morrissey -- Old Aesop and ‘Aesopics’: Facts and Fiction, Film and Fables / Gert Reifarth -- The Slave, the Fable : A Political Hermeneutics of the Aesopic / Justin Clemens -- Concealed Writing (Verdeckte Schreibweise) in the Third Reich : Forms and Problems of Reception / Erwin Rotermund -- Once GPU came to Aesop… : Political Fables in Russian Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries / Evgenia A. Kravchenkova -- Aesop vs Censor in the GDR : On the Subversive Power of Political Fairy Tales / Gert Reifarth -- Dis-Enchanted, Dis-Entangled Tales : Francophone African Literature Today. The Examples of Boubacar Boris Diop and Véronique Tadjo / Odile Cazenave -- We are story animals : Aesopics in Holocaust literature by Art Spiegelman and Yann Martel / Laura Petersen -- Thrilling the Audience, (Dis)tracting the Censors : Suspense as Diversion in Adolfo Aristarain’s film Tiempo de revancha / Catherine Collins and Patricia Varas -- Once Upon a Time, Tonight : Aesopic Dramaturgy in Community Development and Intercultural Art in Thailand / Xan Colman and Tamara Searle -- The Disfiguration of Aesop and Karaghiozes : Embodiment of Indirect Expostulation and Resistance in Greek Shadow Theatre / George Katsadoros -- Aesopic Transformation in Scientific Discourse : Observations on Galileo and a Perspective on Dawkins / Stephan Packard -- Back to Orthodoxy? Religious Discourse in Post-communist Russia as an Empty Signifier / Julia Vassilieva -- Wayfinding : Dances on the Beaches of the Mind / Greg Dening -- Old Cobraboor : Colonial Violence and Aboriginal Modesty / Philip Morrissey -- Contemporary Urban Indigenous ‘Dreamings’ : Connection, Ceremony and Practice / Marcus Waters -- Changing the World is Child’s Play : The Challenge of Aspirationalism in the South / Kevin Murray -- The Man with no Ear : Bioethical Issues as a Base for Fables / Catherine Fargher.