Scheherazade's Children : : Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights / / ed. by Marina Warner, Philip F. Kennedy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ballaster, Ros,; Châtel, Laurent,; Colla, Elliott,; Doniger, Wendy,; Ghazoul, Ferial J.,; Horta, Paulo Lemos,; Irwin, Robert,; Joncus, Berta,; Jullien, Dominique,; Kennedy, Philip F.,; Kuti, Elizabeth,; Nishio, Tetsuo,; Pearson, Roger,; Sabbagh, Karl,; Thomas, Rosie,; Trumpener, Katie,; Warner, Marina,; Yamanaka, Yuriko,; Yunis, Alia,
• HerausgeberIn: Kennedy, Philip F.,; Warner, Marina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part I: Translating --; 1. The Sea-Born Tale --; 2. Re-Orienting William Beckford: --; 3. The Collector of Worlds --; Part II: Engaging --; 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 Sailor: Textual, Visual, and Performative Interpretations --; Part III: Staging --; 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 --; Afterword --; List of Stories --; Selected Bibliography --; About the Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781479837922; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479837922.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Marina Warner, Philip F. Kennedy.

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.