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The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures - Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry (Paperback)
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The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures - Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry (Paperback)
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The stories in the Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights,
are familiar to many of us: from the tales of Aladdin, Sinbad the
Sailor, Ali Baba and his forty thieves, to the framing story of
Scheherazade telling these stories to her homicidal husband,
Shahrayar. This book offers a rich and wide-ranging analysis of the
power of this collection of tales that penetrates so many cultures
and appeals to such a variety of predilections and tastes. It also
explores areas that were left untouched, like the decolonization of
the Arabian Nights, and its archaeologies. Unique in its excavation
into inroads of perception and reception, Muhsin J. al-Musawi's
book unearths means of connection with common publics and learned
societies. Al-Musawi shows, as never before, how the Arabian Nights
has been translated, appropriated, and authenticated or abused over
time, and how its reach is so expansive as to draw the attention of
poets, painters, illustrators, translators, editors, musicians,
political scientists like Leo Strauss, and novelists like Michel
Butor, James Joyce and Marcel Proust amongst others. Making use of
documentaries, films, paintings, novels and novellas, poetry,
digital forums and political jargon, this book offers nuanced
understanding of the perennial charm and power of this collection.
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