The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective
Edited by Ulrich Marzolph
Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
“This book celebrates the truly global reach of the Arabian Nights over the centuries. The contributors—a gathering of some of the most creative literary critics and textual scholars active today—trace the presence of the Nights in settings as diverse as Sicilian folklore, Hawaiian newspapers, German cinema, Greek oral traditions, and Swahili-language story collections of East Africa.”
—David Pinault, associate professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University and author of Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights
“This volume of nineteen essays is a noteworthy and fascinating contribution to our understanding of the Arabian Nights and its cross-cultural history and influence. The essays are insightful and illuminating, and the collection itself is a valuable addition to the comparative study of literary translation and the intra- and intercultural responses that it provokes. The editor and authors are to be congratulated.”
—Peter Heath, provost of the American University of Beirut