A rich and wide-ranging study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, using social science and literary theory to account for the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the stories over its three-hundred-year history.
A rich and wide-ranging study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, using social science and literary theory to account for the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the stories over its three-hundred-year history.
Muhsin J. al-Musawi is Professor of classical and modern Arabic literature, comparative and cultural studies at Columbia University in New York. He is the editor of the Journal of Arabic Literature and the recipient of the Owais Award in Literary Criticism in 2002, and the Kuwait Prize in Arabic language and literature in 2018. He is the author and editor of numerous books including, The Postcolonial Arabic Novel: Debating Ambivalence (2003), Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition (2006), Reading Iraq: Culture and Power in Conflict (2006), Arabic Literary Thresholds: Sites of Rhetorical Turn in Contemporary Scholarship (2009), The Islamic Context of the Thousand and One Nights, The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, and Islam on the Street: Religion in Arabic Literature (2009), winner of 'Choice' Outstanding Academic Title in 2010.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: the stunning growth of a constellation 1. The Arabian Nights: a European legacy? 2. The Scheherazade factor 3. Engagements in narrative 4. The 'hostile dynasty': rewriting the Arabian Nights 5. The archaeology of A Thousand and One Nights 6. Signatures and affiliates 7. Decolonizing the Arabian Nights? 8. Invitation to discourse Bibliography Appendix A. Editions worldwide Appendix B. Selections from a comparative study between Grub Street translation of Galland (reprinted in Novelist magazine), and Haddawy's translation of Muhsin Mahdi's edition of Galland's original Arabic manuscript of Galland.
Introduction: the stunning growth of a constellation 1. The Arabian Nights: a European legacy? 2. The Scheherazade factor 3. Engagements in narrative 4. The 'hostile dynasty': rewriting the Arabian Nights 5. The archaeology of A Thousand and One Nights 6. Signatures and affiliates 7. Decolonizing the Arabian Nights? 8. Invitation to discourse Bibliography Appendix A. Editions worldwide Appendix B. Selections from a comparative study between Grub Street translation of Galland (reprinted in Novelist magazine), and Haddawy's translation of Muhsin Mahdi's edition of Galland's original Arabic manuscript of Galland.
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