The Arabian Nights in contemporary world cultures : global commodification, translation, and the culture industry /
Mūsawī, Muḥsin Jāsim,author.
"This study of the Thousand and One Nights addresses the place of what is commonly called Arabian Nights in contemporary world cultures. It aims to study theoretical and philological undertakings, including poetics of prose and poetry, in conversation with social science. It explores and excavates the reasons for and effects of an enormous constellation of knowledge about and around the tales that has generated further projects to compile manuals, guides, companions, edited compilations, and encyclopedias. These constellations and projects also build on, or converse with, cinematic production, theater, painting, music,3 and other visual sites and spectacles"--
Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-398) and index.
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.
"This study of the Thousand and One Nights addresses the place of what is commonly called Arabian Nights in contemporary world cultures. It aims to study theoretical and philological undertakings, including poetics of prose and poetry, in conversation with social science. It explores and excavates the reasons for and effects of an enormous constellation of knowledge about and around the tales that has generated further projects to compile manuals, guides, companions, edited compilations, and encyclopedias. These constellations and projects also build on, or converse with, cinematic production, theater, painting, music,3 and other visual sites and spectacles"--
Arabian nights
Arabian nights