Description
Teaching strategies for one of the world's most widely read collections of stories
The Thousand and One Nights, composed in Arabic from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries, is one of the world's most widely circulated and influential collections of stories. To help instructors introduce the tales to students, this volume provides historical context and discusses the many transformations of the stories in a variety of cultures. Among the topics covered are the numerous translations and their impact on the tales' reception; various genres represented by the tales; gender, race, and slavery; and adaptations of the stories in films, graphic novels, and other media across the world and under conditions of both imperialism and postcolonialism. The essays serve instructors in subjects such as medieval literature, world literature, and Middle and Near Eastern studies and make a case for teaching the Thousand and One Nights in courses on identity and race.
Author: Paulo Lemos Horta
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Published: 10/10/2023
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781603295970
ISBN10: 1603295976
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Study & Teaching
- Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern
- Literary Criticism | Medieval