"Re-Encountering Scheherzade": Gender, Cultural Mobility, and Narrative Transformations in Alia Yunis's The Night Counter
This paper explores the manner in which Alia Yunis's novel The Night Counter evokes the figure of Scheherazade from the Thousand and One Nights. First, the paper looks at Yunis's comedic articulations of cultural mobility in her description of her childhood attachment to Scheherazade in h...
Main Author: | Pauline Homsi Vinson |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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North Carolina State University, Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
2015-01-01
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Series: | Mashriq & Mahjar |
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Online Access: | https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/article/view/26 |
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