Entangled Paths

Animals in fairy tales are often regarded as symbolic representations or anthropomorphic characters rather than nonhuman beings who experience the world differently from humans. Yet as we globally reimagine multispecies coexistence, this work invites us to focus on more-than-human storyworlds and to analyze visual representations of animals and human-animal relations in familiar stories such as "Little Red Riding Hood" as well as lesser-known Indigenous tales by artists and illustrators from North America, Japan, Brazil, and Britain. This innovative study places multispecies entanglements, fairy-tale studies, and art at the forefront of conversations on the mutual survival and well-being of our planet's inhabitants.