The sea-born tale: eighteenth-century English translations of The thousand and one nights and the lure of elemental difference / Ros Ballaster -- Re-orienting William Beckford: transmission, translation, and continuation of The thousand and one nights / Laurent Châtel -- The collector of worlds: Richard Burton, Cosmopolitan translator of the Nights / Paulo Lemos Horta -- The porter and portability: figure and narrative in the Nights / Elliot Colla -- The rings of budur and Qamar al-Zaman / Wendy Doniger -- White magic: Voltaire and Galland's Mille et une nuits / Roger Pearson -- The Arabian nights and the origins of the Western Novel / Robert Irwin -- "A covenant for reconciliation" Lane's Thousand and one nights and Eliot's Daniel Deronda / Paulo Lemos Horta -- Translating destiny: Hugo von Hoffmanstahl's "Tale of the 672nd night" / Dominique Jullien -- Borges and the missing pages of the Nights / Philip F. Kennedy -- The politics of conversation: Denis Diderot, Elio Vittorini, Manuel Puig, Masaki Kobayashi, Vasily Grossman / Katie Trumpener -- Sinbad the Sailor: textual, visual, and performative interpretations / Ferial J. Ghazoul -- The Arabian Nights in British Pantomime / Karl Sabbagh -- The Arabian Nights in traditional Japanese performing arts / Yuriko Yamanaka -- "Nectar if you taste and go, poison if you stay": struggling with the Orient in Eighteenth-century British musical theater / Berta Joncus -- Scheherazade, Bluebeard, and theatrical curiosity / Elizabeth Kuti -- The Takarazuka revue and the fantasy of "Arabia" in Japan / Tetsuo Nishio -- Thieves of the Orient: the Arabian nights in early Indian cinema / Rosie Thomas -- Afterword: My Arabian superheroine / Alia Yunis.
Summary:
Scheherazade{u2019}s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the Arabian Nights tales across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors.
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