In The Great Khan’s Tent One Year Special Episode I

In The Great Khan’s Tent is now a year old!

We would like to firstly thank all of our listeners for helping us with our journey so far and hope you are pleased by our offerings so far and plan to stick around as we reach new and better heights while bringing you the same quality of educational, informative, and entertaining content that we are known for!

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In the first of our One Year Special, we examine the question of Obscenity and Censorship in the One Thousand and One Nights. This was a part of a question that a listener had asked of us, concerning the translators and why we use their translations for this podcast. In this talk, I discuss how the question of obscenity, censorship, and the translators themselves transformed the corpus of literature that we know today as the One Thousand and One Nights. The history of the translators themselves, their translations, and their publication history will be examined in detail at a later time.

If you’d like to know more than the basic structure I provide, there is a reading list provided on the website and I would recommend reading Edward Said’s book on Orientalism to get a better grip of the environment and the ideologies that these translators used to produced their works.

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