Marzolph: The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective
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Preface [partial]

Extract from Chapter 1

Index

The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective

Edited by Ulrich Marzolph

Series in Fairy-Tale Studies

Contents

  • Preface
  • Ulrich Marzolph

I. Galland’s Translation and Its “Continuation”

  • 1. Galland’s “Ali Baba” and Other Arabic Versions
  • Aboubakr Chraïbi
  • 2. Further Considerations on Galland’s Mille et une Nuits: A Study of the Tales Told by Hannâ
  • Sylvette Larzul
  • 3. Jacques Cazotte, His Hero Xaïloun, and Hamîda the Kaslân: A Unique Feature of Cazotte’s “Continuation” of the Arabian Nights and a Newly Discovered Arabic Source That Inspired His Novel on Xaïloun
  • Joseph Sadan

II. Texts and Contexts of the Arabian Nights

  • 4. Creativity, Random Selection, and pia fraus: Observations on Compilation and Transmission of the Arabian Nights
  • Heinz Grotzfeld
  • 5. Slave-Girl Lost and Regained: Transformations of a Story
  • Geert Jan van Gelder
  • 6. Siblings in Alf layla wa-layla
  • Hasan El-Shamy
  • 7. Political Thought in the Thousand and One Nights
  • Robert Irwin

III. Framing as Form and Meaning

  • 8. The Teacher and the Taught: Structures and Meaning in the Arabian Nights and the Panchatantra
  • Sadhana Naithani
  • 9. Framing in Narrative
  • Lee Haring

IV. Translation, Adaptation, and Reception

  • 10. The Arabian Nights in the Kuokoa, a Nineteenth-Century Hawaiian Newspaper: Reflections on the Politics of Translation
  • Cristina Bacchilega and Noelani Arista
  • 11. Alfu Lela Ulela: The Thousand and One Nights in Swahili-Speaking East Africa
  • Thomas Geider
  • 12. The Thousand and One Nights in Turkish: Translations, Adaptations, and Issues
  • Hande A. Birkalan-Gedik
  • 13. The Persian Nights: Links between the Arabian Nights and Iranian Culture
  • Ulrich Marzolph
  • 14. The Arabian Nights, Visual Culture, and Early German Cinema
  • Donald Haase
  • 15. Shahrazâd Is One of Us: Practical Narrative, Theoretical Discussion, and Feminist Discourse
  • Susanne Enderwitz

V. The Arabian Nights in International Oral Tradition

  • 16. In and Out of the Arabian Nights: Memories of Oriental Tales in Sicilian Folklore
  • Francesca Maria Corrao
  • 17. The Arabian Nights in Greece: A Comparative Survey of Greek Oral Tradition
  • Marilena Papachristophorou
  • 18. Alf layla fârsi in Performance: Afghanistan, 1975
  • Margaret A. Mills
  • 19. The Tale of “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp” in Balochi Oral Tradition
  • Sabir Badalkhan

Contributors

Index