Impostures
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Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways 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-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East—we encounter him impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on the spot. Award-winning translator Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordplay of his own, using fifty different registers of English, from the distinctive literary styles of authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf, to global varieties of English including Cockney rhyming slang, Nigerian English, and Singaporean English. Featuring picaresque adventures and linguistic acrobatics, Impostures brings the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in a dazzling display of translation.An English-only edition.
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al-Ḥarīrī. Impostures
Table of Contents
Landmarks
Letter from the General Editor
Foreword: In Praise of Pretense
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Map: The World of Abū Zayd
Note on the Translation
Notes
Bibliography
The Author’s Introduction
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 1
Ever the Twain Shall Meet
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 2
A Basran Boswell
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 3
Sing o’ Rich, Sing o’ Poor
Glossary. 3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 4
Euphues’ Damietta
Glossary. 4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.7
4.8
4.9
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 5
Woolf at the Door
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 6
Plain Anglish
Glossary. 6.1
6.2
6.3
6.5
6.6
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 7
Gangs of New Saybin
Glossary. 7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 8
Text/ile
Glossary. 8.1
8.6
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 9
Stringing Her Along
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 10
Alharet Eben Hammam His Tale
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 11
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Preacher
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 12
Arabia Absurda
Glossary. 12.1
12.2
12.5
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 13
The Cozening Quean of Babylon
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 14
Scot Free
Glossary. 14.1
14.2
14.3
14.4
14.5
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 15
Hobson’s Choice
Glossary. 15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.8
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 16
Con Safos
Glossary. 16.1
16.2
16.3
16.4
16.5
16.7
16.8
16.9
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 17
Back Words
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 18
A Scandal in Mesopotamia, or, The Tell-Tale Tart
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 19
My Man Zayd
Glossary. 19.5
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 20
Down Under
Glossary. 20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 21
Down in Bam
Glossary
21.1
21.2
21.3
21.4
21.5
21.6
21.7
21.9
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 22
Leveraging the Flow
Glossary. 22.1
22.2
22.3
22.4
22.5
22.6
22.7
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 23
Three Men in a Dub
Glossary. 23.1
23.2
23.3
23.4
23.5
23.7
23.8
23.9
23.10
23.11
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 24
Arabians Learn Arabian
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 25
De Froid Trempé
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 26
What the Dickens?
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 27
The Wild East
Glossary. 27.1
27.2
27.3
27.4
27.5
27.6
27.7
27.8
27.9
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 28
A Void in Samarkand
Glossary. 28.1
28.2
28.3
28.4
28.5
28.6
28.7
28.8
28.9
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 29
The Behn of His Exiſtence
Glossary. 29.1
29.4
29.9
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 30
Stop Hole Abbey
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 31
A Hajji’s Progreſs
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 32
Jury-Rigged
Glossary. 32.2
32.16
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 33
The Joy of Yarabic
Glossary. 33.1
33.2
33.3
33.4
33.5
33.6
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 34
The Fraud of Slavery
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 35
De-Canted
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 36
What Is the Question?
Notes
Cryptic clues and setter’s jargon explained
Bibliography
Imposture 37
Off the Heezie
Glossary. 37.1
37.2
37.3
37.5
37.6
37.7
37.8
37.9
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 38
Wocky Talkie
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 39
The Seafarer
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 40
Iran go Brágh
Glossary
40.1
40.2
40.3
40.4
40.5
40.6
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 41
The Cup of Counsel
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 42
Discruciate This!
Glossary. 42.1
42.2
42.8
42.9
42.10
42.12
42.13
42.14
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 43
Containing Great Variety of Matter
Glossary. 43.8
43.13
43.16
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 44
Near East Enders
Glossary. 44.1
44.2
44.3
44.4
44.5
44.6
44.7
44.8
44.9
44.10
44.11
44.12
44.13
44.14
44.15
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 45
Cat among the Pidgins
Glossary. 45.1
45.2
45.3
45.4
45.5
45.6
45.7
45.8
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 46
Araby
Glossary. 46.1
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 47
The Confidence Men
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 48
Alcoholics Eponymous
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 49
The Parliament of Rogues
Glossary. 49.3
49.4
49.5
Notes
Bibliography
Imposture 50
See Saw Margery Daw
Notes
Bibliography
The Author’s Retraction
Glossary
Bibliography
About NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
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About the Cover Artist
About the Translator