Impostures / / al-Ḥarīrī.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: al-Ḥarīrī,
• MitwirkendeR: Cooperson, Michael,; Kilito, Abdelfattah,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Library of Arabic Literature ; 65
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 1 map

Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty waysAn itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature.Impostures follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East—we encounter him impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on the spot. Award-winning translator Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordplay of his own, using fifty different registers of English, from the distinctive literary styles of authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf, to global varieties of English including Cockney rhyming slang, Nigerian English, and Singaporean English. Featuring picaresque adventures and linguistic acrobatics, Impostures brings the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in a dazzling display of translation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Letter from the General Editor -- Table of Contents -- Foreword: In Praise of Pretense -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Map: The World of Abū Zayd -- Note on the Translation -- Bibliography -- Impostures -- The Author’s Introduction -- Imposture 1: Ever the Twain Shall Meet -- Imposture 2: A Basran Boswell -- Imposture 3: Sing o’ Rich, Sing o’ Poor -- Imposture 4: Euphues’ Damietta -- Imposture 5: Woolf at the Door -- Imposture 6: Plain Anglish -- Imposture 7: Gangs of New Saybin -- Imposture 8: Text/ile -- Imposture 9: Stringing Her Along -- Imposture 10: Alharet Eben Hammam His Tale -- Imposture 11: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Preacher -- Imposture 12: Arabia Absurda -- Imposture 13: The Cozening Quean of Babylon -- Imposture 14: Scot Free -- Imposture 15: Hobson’s Choice -- Imposture 16: Con Safos -- Imposture 17: Back Words -- Imposture 18: A Scandal in Mesopotamia, or, The Tell-Tale Tart -- Imposture 19: My Man Zayd -- Imposture 20: Down Under -- Imposture 21: Down in Bam -- Imposture 22: Leveraging the Flow -- Imposture 23: Three Men in a Dub -- Imposture 24: Arabians Learn Arabian -- Imposture 25: De Froid Trempé -- Imposture 26: What the Dickens? -- Imposture 27: The Wild East -- Imposture 28: A Void in Samarkand -- Imposture 29: The Behn of His Exiſtence -- Imposture 30: Stop Hole Abbey -- Imposture 31: A Hajji’s Progreſs -- Imposture 32: Jury-Rigged -- Imposture 33: The Joy of Yarabic -- Imposture 34: The Fraud of Slavery -- Imposture 35: De-Canted -- Imposture 36: What Is the Question? -- Imposture 37: Off the Heezie -- Imposture 38: Wocky Talkie -- Imposture 39: The Seafarer -- Imposture 40: Iran go Brágh -- Imposture 41: The Cup of Counsel -- Imposture 42: Discruciate This! -- Imposture 43: Containing Great Variety of Matter -- Imposture 44: Near East Enders -- Imposture 45: Cat among the Pidgins -- Imposture 46: Araby -- Imposture 47: The Confidence Men -- Imposture 48: Alcoholics Eponymous -- Imposture 49: The Parliament of Rogues -- Imposture 50: See Saw Margery Daw -- The Author’s Retraction -- About NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature -- About the Cover Artist -- About the Translator