The Arabian Nights in transnational perspective
By: edited by Ulrich Marzolph.
Contributors: Marzolph, Ulrich.
Series: Series in fairy-tale studies
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814332870
Subjects: Arabian nights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Galland's translation and its "continuation": 1. Galland's 'Ali Baba' and other Arabic versions / Aboubakr Chra'bi; title: 2. Further considerations on Galland's Mille et une Nuits: a study of the tales told by Hannā / Sylvette Larzul; title: 3. Jacques Cazotte, his hero Xa'loun, and Hamāda the Kaslān: a unique feature of Cazotte's 'continuation' of the Arabian Nights and a newly discovered Arabic source that inspired his novel on Xa'loun / Joseph Sadan; title: II. Texts and contexts of the Arabian Nights: 4. Creativity, random selection, and pia fraus: observations on compilation and transmission of the Arabian Nights / Heinz Grotzfeld; title: 5. Slave-girl lost and regained: transformations of a story / Geert Jan van Gelder; title: 6. Siblings in Alf laylah wa-laylah / Hasan El-Shamy; title: 7. Political thought in The Thousand and One Nights / Robert Irwin; title: III. Framing as form and meaning: 8. The teacher and the taught: structures and meaning in the Arabian Nights and the Panchatantra / Sadhana Naithani; title: 9. Framing in narrative / Lee Haring; title: IV. Translation, adaptation, and reception: 10. The Arabian Nights in the Kuokoa, a Nineteenth-century Hawaiian newspaper: reflections on the politics of translation / Cristina Bacchilega, Noelani Arista; title: 11. Alfu Lela Ulela: The Thousand and One Nights in Swahili-speaking East Africa / Thomas Geider; title: 12. The Thousand and One Nights in Turkish: translations, adaptations, and issues / Hande A. Birkalan-Gedik; title: - 13. The Persian nights: links between the Arabian Nights and Iranian culture / Ulrich Marzolph; title: 14. The Arabian Nights, visual culture, and early German cinema / Donald Haase; title: 15. Shahrazād is one of us: practical narrative, theoretical discussion, and feminist discourse / Susanne Enderwitz; title: V. The Arabian Nights in international oral tradition: 16. In and out of the Arabian Nights: memories of oriental tales in Sicilian folklore / Francesca Maria Corrao; title: 17. The Arabian Nights in Greece: a comparative survey of Greek oral tradition / Marilena Papachristophorou; title: 18. Alf layla fārsi in performance: Afghanistan, 1975 / Margaret A. Mills; title: 19. The tale of 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp' in Balochi oral tradition / Sabir Badalkhan.