Impostures / / al-Ḥarīrī.
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-S...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 1 map |
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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