...Literatures (incorporating Edebiyat), begins her essay Jorge Luis Borges's frequent invocation of the Arabian Nights with the words of the Argentinean writer himself: "Los siglos pasan y la genre sigue escuchando la voz de Shaharazad" ("The centuries pass and still we listen to the voice of Scheherazade"). These words, taken from Borges's story collection Siete Noches, provide an apt description of the work of numerous scholars over the last three years to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Galland's translation of the Nights. Indeed, the voice of...

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