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=
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with historical, literary, or other cultural media (including painting, film=
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or animated versions of particular stories).
For more information on
NEMLA and its annual convention see http://www.nemla.org.
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