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Scheherazade's Children

Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights
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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.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I 1 The Sea-Born Tale 2 Re-Orienting William Beckford 3 The Collector of WorldsPart II 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 SailorPart III 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 AfterwordList of Stories Selected Bibliography About the Contributors Index The illustrations appear in two groups, following pages 176 and 224. For information about the illustrations, see the list of illustrations on page ix.
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