[Discussion] CFP: 1001 Nights in the Western Imagination (9/15/02; NEMLA, 3/6/03-3/9/03)]

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Subject: CFP: 1001 Nights in the Western Imagination (9/15/02; NEMLA, 3/6/03-3/9/03)
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Call For Papers: "The 1001 Nights in the Western Imagination"=20
NEMLA 2003 (March 6-9, 2003, Boston, MA)
Deadline: September 15, 2002
Panel Chairs: Heather Dubnick and Martin Marafioti

We invite abstracts that consider the influence and impact of The 1001 Nights
across  cultures; papers addressing  issues of  reception, (mis)translation,
adaptation, storytelling and Orientalism are particularly encouraged.  Please
send abstracts by September 15, 2003 via email to dubnick@bu.edu or by mail
to 141 Col=F3n St., Beverly, MA 01915.


Panel Description:
   The Thousand and One Nights has long occupied a special place in the=20
literary and cultural imagination of the West.  In the Decameron, for=20
example, Giovanni Boccaccio both emulates the structure of the collection as=
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a whole and adapts the content of many of the tales; centuries later, Jorge=20
Luis Borges, at the end of his essay "Translators of The Thousand and One=20
Nights," expresses the desire to see the "marvels in the Nights rethought in=
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German," asking "[w]hat might a man-a Kafka-do if he organized and=20
intensified this play [of chance, symmetries, contrasts, digressions], remad=
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it in line with the Germanic distortion, the unheimlichkeit of Germany?" (
Selected Non-Fictions 108-9.).   In this panel, we hope to attract papers=20
that consider the influence and impact of The Thousand and One Nights across=
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Western literatures and cultures, not only in terms of the retelling of=20
particular stories, but also in terms of the rethinking of storytelling=20
itself.  Papers may address questions of (mis)translation, dissemination,=20
adaptation, literary theory, storytelling, copying, Orientalism, and may dea=
l=20
with historical, literary, or other cultural media (including painting, film=
,=20
or animated versions of particular stories).


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