Shahrazad in twentieth-century fiction : approaches and considerations / Richard van Leeuwen -- "We are not in Baghdad anymore" : textual travels and Hausa intertextual adaptation of selected tales of One thousand and one nights in Northern Nigeria / Abdalla Uba Adamu -- Enchanted storytelling : Muḥammad Khuḍayyir between Borges and Shahrazad / Fabio Caiani and Catherine Cobha -- Two perspectives, one Shahrazad : Turkish poetry and One thousand and one nights / Neslihan Demirkol and Mehmet Kalpaklı -- Source of inspiration, matter of translation, Joseph von Hammer and the 1001 nights / Sibylle Wentker -- 'Oh leader of women in the world, oh Shahrazad!' : the ending of the One thousand and one nights in the earliest Turkish translation and its relationship to the Arabic versions / Johannes Thomann -- Learning over-nights : Calcutta one as an adaptation for learners of Arabic / Orhan Elmaz -- In and out of the nights : the Thousand and one nights as an introduction to Middle Eastern narrative culture / Ulrich Marzolph -- From Shahriyār's palace to the streets of Morocco : a comparative study of the Moroccan oral tale 'Ḥātim and the queen cobra' with the 'Story of Ḥāsib Karīm al-Dīn and the queen cobra' in the One thousand and one nights / Driss Cherkaou -- The slippers that keep coming back : gender and race in two Swedish theatre adaptations, Abu Casem's slippers (1908) and The weaver of Baghdad (1923) / Tetz Rooke -- Miguel Gomes's Arabian nights trilogy : representing the Portuguese crisis through the imaginary world of The thousand and one nights / Ana Vera -- Russian orientalist ballet and non-Russian national opera : from Diaghilev to Miroshnichenko / Firuza Melville.
Summary:
"This volume deals with One Thousand and One Nights in yet another and novel way as it brings old and new together by exploring parallels and possible origins of its tales, as well as the wealth of modern and contemporary material that it has originated and continues to inspire. The papers included in this volume address the theory and practice of the adaptation and appropriation of One Thousand and One Nights into any type of literary text and media, while approaching a definition of our contemporary knowledge and understanding of the Nights. Through this, it will be possible to underline the dynamic nature and autonomous life that the tale collection acquired and how it originated works like Jorge Luis Borges's essays, Naguib Mahfouz's works, Miguel Gomes's trilogy, a Turkish soap opera that became popular around the world and made it to Netflix, or Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's well-known symphonic suite"-- Provided by publisher.
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