Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights

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Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights is written by Paulo Lemos Horta and published by Modern Language Association. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1603295984 (ISBN 10) and 9781603295987 (ISBN 13).

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.