Scheherazade's Children :: Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights /: ed. by Marina Warner, Philip F. Kennedy.

Name: Scheherazade's Children : Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights / ed. by Marina Warner, Philip F. Kennedy.
ISBN: 9781479837922

Ballaster, Ros,; Châtel, Laurent,; Colla, Elliott,; Doniger, Wendy,; Ghazoul, Ferial J.,; Horta, Paulo Lemos,; Irwin, Robert,; Joncus, Berta,; Jullien, Dominique,; Kennedy, Philip F.,; Kuti, Elizabeth,; Nishio, Tetsuo,; Pearson, Roger,; Sabbagh, Karl,; Thomas, Rosie,; Trumpener, Katie,; Warner, Marina,; Yamanaka, Yuriko,; Yunis, Alia,

doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479837922.001.0001

Scheherazade's Children : Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights / ed. by Marina Warner, Philip F. Kennedy.

2013

PJ7737 .S44 2013

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Title Scheherazade's Children : Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights / ed. by Marina Warner, Philip F. Kennedy.

ISBN 9781479837922

DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479837922.001.0001

Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2013]

Language English

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Description 1 online resource

Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9781479837922.001.0001 doi

Call Number PJ7737 .S44 2013

Dewey Decimal Classification 398.22

Summary Scheherazade's Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book's metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature-from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the book's complex history. Polemical issues are thereby given unprecedented and enlightening interpretations. Organized under the rubrics of Translating, Engaging, and Staging, these essays view the Nights corpus as a uniquely accretive cultural bundle that absorbs the works upon which it has exerted influence. In this view, the Arabian Nights is a dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema. While scholarly, the writers' approach is also lively and entertaining, and the book is richly illustrated with unusual materials to deliver a sparkling and highly original exploration of the Arabian Nights' radiating influence on world literature, performance, and culture.

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Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Translating
1. The Sea-Born Tale
2. Re-Orienting William Beckford:
3. The Collector of Worlds
Part II: Engaging
4. The Porter and Portability
5. The Rings of Budur and Qamar al-Zaman
6. White Magic
7. The Arabian Nights and the Origins of the Western Novel
8. "A Covenant for Reconciliation"
9. Translating Destiny
10. Borges and the Missing Pages of the Nights
11. The Politics of Conversation
12. Sindbad the Sailor: Textual, Visual, and Performative Interpretations
Part III: Staging
13. The Arabian Nights in British Pantomime
14. The Arabian Nights in Traditional Japanese Performing Arts
15. "Nectar If You Taste and Go, Poison If You Stay"
16. Scheherazade, Bluebeard, and Theatrical Curiosity
17. The Takarazuka Revue and the Fantasy of "Arabia" in Japan
18. Thieves of the Orient
Afterword
List of Stories
Selected Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index

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