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- Title
From Genie to Efreet: Fantastic Apparitions in the Tales of The Arabian Nights.
- Authors
Duggan, Anne E.
- Abstract
This essay considers the evolution of the genie as a fantastic apparition from its emergence in French literature at the beginning of the eighteenth century to its development into the early twentieth century in both France and England. I focus on tales from the Nights that were frequently depicted by illustrators of French and English editions, namely, the lady of the rings, of the frame narrative;"The merchant and the genie"; "The fisherman and the genie";and "Aladdin" in order to follow textual and visual evolutions of the figure. In insisting upon the nature of the genie as a fantastic apparition, I will approach the figure in relation to the question of alterity. Initially translated into an otherworldly Other, evident in eighteenth-century illustration, the genie comes to represent an ethnic or racial Other by the early twentieth century. We will follow the progressive ethnologization or racialization of the figure of the genie from Galland and Edward Lane to Joseph-Charles Mardrus, as well as in the history of illustration.
- Subjects
JINN; 18TH century French literature; GHOSTS in literature; ARABIAN Nights (Tale); ETHNICITY in literature; RACE identity in literature; RACIALIZATION
- Publication
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2015, Vol 26, Issue 1, p113
- ISSN
0897-0521
- Publication type
Essay