The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry

ISBN-13: 9781108465557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Muhsin J. Al-Musawi

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'Al-Musawi brings a lifetime of Arabian Nights' scholarship to bear on his expansive new study of its generative role in the Western and Global literary and cultural imagination from the 18th century to the present. Ranging from Romanticism through Modernism to Post-Modernism, al-Musawi compellingly demonstrates how this protean Arabic story collection has shaped the novel, music, fine arts, and film.' Suzanne Stetkevych, Georgetown University

Spis treści

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.