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Tag: The Arabian Nights

One Thousand and One Hockey Nights in Canada
Canadientalism is a discourse of American imperialist stereotypes aimed at defining the essential nature of the "exotic North."
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
The following is an excerpt from the presentation I made earlier this week for my seminar on (Post)Colonial Geographies with Professor Sandeep Banerjee at McGill University. The young protagonist of Salman Rushdie's children's fantasy novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories asks his father Rashid Khalifa, a great storyteller better known as the Shah of …
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