Scheherazade's Night Out
Author | : Craig Shaw Gardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Scheherazade (Legendary character) |
ISBN | : 9780747238782 |
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Author | : Craig Shaw Gardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Scheherazade (Legendary character) |
ISBN | : 9780747238782 |
Author | : Craig Shaw Gardner |
Publisher | : Crossroad Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2021-09-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Attend, beloved listeners, to the tale of Scheherazade, whose magical stories are her only defense against mad kings, evil djinn, and an unspeakable mother-in-law... For truly it will take a silver tongue to save a pretty neck. From New York Times bestselling author Craig Shaw Gardner, the rollicking conclusion to his outrageous Sinbad series. The other Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin, and friends are trapped in an enchanted cavern. But the fearless heroes soon find their way into the Palace of Beautiful Women, where they meet Queen Scheherazade, whose husband has the nasty habit of cutting off his wives' heads.
Author | : Gardner Craig Shaw (author) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781005884840 |
Author | : Alia Yunis |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2009-07-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307453642 |
"An immigrant-ethnic cocktail laced with political oppression, but before shaking, [Alia Yunis] adds Scheherazade, the fabled storyteller who kept herself alive by distracting her tyrannical husband for a thousand and one nights." --Carolyn See, Washington Post After 85 years, Fatima knows that she is dying because for the last 991 days she has been visited by the immortal storyteller from The Arabian Nights, Scheherazade. Just as Scheherazade spun magical stories for 1,001 nights to save her own life, Fatima has spent each night telling Scheherazade her life stories. But with only nine days left before her death, Fatima has a few loose ends to tie up. She must find a wife for her openly gay grandson, teach Arabic (and birth control) to her 17-year-old great-granddaughter, make amends with her estranged husband, and decide which of her troublesome children should inherit her family's home in Lebanon--a house she herself has not seen in nearly 70 years. Fatima’s children are spread far apart and are wrapped up in their own chaotic lives seemingly disinterested in their mother and their inheritances. But as she weaves stories of her husband, children, and grandchildren, Fatima brings together a family that is both capricious and steadfast, affectionate and also smothering, connected yet terribly alone. Taken all together, they present a striking and surprising tapestry of modern Arab American life. Shifting between America and Lebanon over the last hundred years, Alia Yunis crafts a bewitching debut novel imbued with great humanity, imagination, family drama and a touch of magic realism. Be prepared to feel utterly charmed.
Author | : Philip F. Kennedy |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2013-11-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1479840319 |
Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book’s metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature—from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the book’s complex history. Polemical issues are thereby given unprecedented and enlightening interpretations. Organized under the rubrics of Translating, Engaging, and Staging, these essays view the Nights corpus as a uniquely accretive cultural bundle that absorbs the works upon which it has exerted influence. In this view, the Arabian Nights is a dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema. While scholarly, the writers’ approach is also lively and entertaining, and the book is richly illustrated with unusual materials to deliver a sparkling and highly original exploration of the Arabian Nights’ radiating influence on world literature, performance, and culture.
Author | : Eric Maltaite |
Publisher | : Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Erotic comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | : 9781561633210 |
The sexy classic fantastic tale brought to comics life without a single cut! The raunchiest nights have been chosen for your enjoyment, o, reader, by the agile hand of the one who did the Robinson Crusoe ribaldization. Except you will note how his art has gotten even more remarkably beautiful and sensuous. The heroine, condemned to death, is able to save her life every night by telling a spicy tale to the pasha. And lusciously spicy they are!
Author | : Sultana Scheherazade |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781536966961 |
The Thousand and One Nights, namely Arabian Nights, is a collection of legendary tales told by Sultana Scheherazade to the Sasanian king ruling in India, who is shocked to discover that his brother's wife is unfaithful and his own wife's infidelity has been even more flagrant, he has her executed, and hereby decides that all women are the same. He begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning. Sultana Scheherazade, a daughter of the Prime Minister of the King, offers herself as the next bride. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade began to tell the king a tale, but does not end it, the telling of such legendary tales lasted one thousand and one nights. In the end, the king pardoned Scheherazade and spared her life.
Author | : Naguib Mahfouz |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2016-06-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101974710 |
The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.
Author | : Fatema Mernissi |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2001-09-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0743422538 |
Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. "When a woman decides to use her wings, she takes big risks," she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't use them, it hurt.... So recalls Fatema Mernissi at the outset of her mesmerizing new book. Of all the lessons she learned from her grandmother -- whose home was, after all, a type of prison -- the most central was that the opportunity to cross boundaries was a sacred privilege. Indeed, in journeys both physical and mental, Mernissi has spent virtually all of her life traveling -- determined to "use her wings" and to renounce her gender's alleged legacy of powerlessness. Bursting with the vitality of Mernissi's personality and of her rich heritage, Scheherazade Goes West reveals the author's unique experiences as a liberated, independent Moroccan woman faced with the peculiarities and unexpected encroachments of Western culture. Her often surprising discoveries about the conditions of and attitudes toward women around the world -- and the exquisitely embroidered amalgam of clear-eyed autobiography and dazzling meta-fiction by which she relates those assorted discoveries -- add up to a deliciously wry, engagingly cosmopolitan, and deeply penetrating narrative. In her previous bestselling works, Mernissi -- widely recognized as the world's greatest living Koranic scholar and Islamic sociologist -- has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East. Now, as a writer and scholarly veteran of the high-wire act of straddling disparate societies, she trains her eyes on the female culture of the West. For her book's inspired central metaphor, Mernissi turns to the ancient Islamic tradition of oral storytelling, illuminating her grandmother's feminized, subversive, and highly erotic take on Scheherazade's wife-preserving tales from The Arabian Nights -- and then ingeniously applying them to her own lyrically embellished personal narrative. Interwoven with vivid ruminations on her childhood, her education, and her various international travels are the author's piquant musings on a range of deeply embedded societal conditions that add up, Mernissi argues, to a veritable "Western harem." A provocative and lively challenge to the common assumption that women have it so much better in the West than anywhere else in the world, Mernissi's book is an entrancing and timely look at the way we live here and now. By inspiring us to reconsider even the most commonplace aspects of our culture with fresh eyes and a healthy dose of suspicion, Scheherazade Goes West offers an invigorating, candid, and entertaining new perspective on the themes and ideas to which Betty Friedan first turned us on nearly forty years ago.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Gower Publishing Company, Limited |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1992-07-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780747227960 |