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Impostures /
"An 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-Sarūjīin his adventures around t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Arabic |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Library of Arabic literature
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Impostures
- 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