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Tales of a Severed Head

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ISBN-10: 0300176287

ISBN-13: 9780300176285

Edition: 2012

Authors: Rachida Madani, Marilyn Hacker

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This volume brings Moroccan poet Rachida Madani's remarkable poems to English-language readers for the first time. InTales of a Severed Head, Madani addresses present-day issues surrounding the role of women in society—issues not unlike those explored a thousand years ago in the enduring collection of Arab tales known as The Thousand and One Nights.In the ancient tales, the insanely distrustful King Shehriyar vows to marry a new wife each night and have her beheaded the next morning, thus eliminating the risk of being cuckolded. Through the courage and wit of young Scheherazade, who volunteers to be the king's bride and then invents the legendary tales that go on for a thousand and one…    
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Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 0.50" wide x 0.78" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Terry Golway was a journalist for thirty years, writing for the New York Observer, the New York Times, and other venues. He holds a PhD in American history from Rutgers University and is currently the director of the Kean University Center for History, Politics, and Policy in New Jersey.Marilyn Hacker is the recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the Robert Fagles Translation Prize, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Her collection Winter Names received a Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent collection of poetry was Names. She lives in Paris, France.