The Arabian Nights in Transnational PerspectiveUlrich Marzolph Wayne State University Press, 2007 - 362 sider The follow-up to The Arabian Nights Reader, this volume investigates the transnational features of the Arabian Nights. In a 2004 meeting marking the Arabian Nights' tercentennial at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, nineteen international scholars presented their work on the transnational aspects of the Arabian Nights. This volume collects their papers, whose topics range from the history of the Arabian Nights manuscripts, to positioning the Nights in modern and postmodern discourse, to the international reception of the Nights in written and oral tradition. Essays are arranged in five sections. The first section contains essays on Galland's translation and its "continuation" by Jacques Cazotte. The second section treats specific characteristics of the Nights, including manuscript tradition, the transformations of a specific narrative pattern occurring in the Nights and other works of medieval Arabic literature, the topic of siblings in the Nights, and the political thought mirrored in the Nights. The essays in the third section deal with framing in relation to the classical Indian collection Panchatantra and as a general cultural technique, with particular attention to storytelling in the oral tradition of the Indian Ocean islands off the African coast. The two concluding and largest sections focus on various aspects of the transnational reception of the Nights. While the essays of the fourth section predominantly discuss written or learned tradition in Hawai'i, Swahili-speaking East Africa, Turkey, Iran, German cinema, and modern Arabic literature, the fifth section encompasses essays on the reception and role of the Nights in the oral tradition of areas as wide apart as Sicily, Greece, Afganistan, and Balochistan. A preface by Ulrich Marzolph unifies this volume. In view of the tremendous impact of the Arabian Nights on Western creative imagination, this collection will appeal to literary scholars of many backgrounds. |
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Gallands Ali Baba and Other Arabic Versions | 3 |
Observations | 51 |
Transformations of a Story | 65 |
Siblings in Alf layla walayla | 83 |
Political Thought in the Thousand and One Nights | 103 |
Structures and Meaning in the Arabian | 119 |
Framing in Narrative | 135 |
The Arabian Nights in the Kuokoa a NineteenthCentury Hawaiian | 157 |
Links between the Arabian Nights | 221 |
The Arabian Nights Visual Culture and Early German Cinema | 245 |
Practical Narrative Theoretical Discussion | 261 |
Memories of Oriental Tales | 279 |
A Comparative Survey of Greek Oral | 291 |
Afghanistan 1975 | 315 |
The Tale of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp in Balochi | 331 |
Contributors | 347 |