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VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
3:37 - Favorite bookish elements
4:47 - Dedications
5:00 - Motherhood in fantasy
10:06 - A different take on colonialism
18:43 - Weird Wolfy Shit
22:26 - Epigraphs (Illness memoir)
24:56 - A historian writing sci-fi
32:02 - Medieval Islam
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BOOKS MENTIONED:
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
The Fake Mate, Lana Ferguson
Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jaouad
A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine
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BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES:
Bibliography from The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi:
Yossef Rapoport’s Islamic Maps
The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History by Sanjeev Sanyal
Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce and Islam by Abdul Sheriff
Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast by Sebastian Prange
Oman: A Maritime History by Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Eric Staples.
Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn by Amira El-Zein
Legends of the Fire Spirits by Robert Lebling
Michael Muhammad Knight’s Magic in Islam.
The Book of Charlatans, by Jamāl al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī, translated by Humphrey Davies (New York: Library of Arabic Literature/NYU Press, 2022). A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia: Ibn al-Mujawir’s tarikh al-mustabsir, edited by G. Rex Smith (London: The Hakluyt Society/Ashgate, 2008).
A Desolation Called Peace full epigraph:
"First, reality was suspended. All breaches to Inca protocol occurred at once: the rules governing personal contact (visual, oral, and corporal), drinking, and eating were broken. When Ciquinchara first met the conquerors he was allowed to do what no Indian could, and now the tables were turned. Since there was no signifying context to frame their interactions, the actors exposed themselves to limitless risk. Atahualpa could have been slaughtered, or Soto and Hernando poisoned. . . ." —Gonzolo Lamana, in “Beyond Exoticization and Likeness: Alterity and the Production of Sense in a Colonial Encounter,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no. 1 (2005): 4–39
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ME, ELSEWHERE:
Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/160245301-mariana-mas-books
Instagram: instagram.com/marianamasbooks
My channel in Spanish: youtube.com/@marianaylavida
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VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
3:37 - Favorite bookish elements
4:47 - Dedications
5:00 - Motherhood in fantasy
10:06 - A different take on colonialism
18:43 - Weird Wolfy Shit
22:26 - Epigraphs (Illness memoir)
24:56 - A historian writing sci-fi
32:02 - Medieval Islam
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BOOKS MENTIONED:
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
The Fake Mate, Lana Ferguson
Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jaouad
A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine
*********************
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES:
Bibliography from The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi:
Yossef Rapoport’s Islamic Maps
The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History by Sanjeev Sanyal
Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce and Islam by Abdul Sheriff
Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast by Sebastian Prange
Oman: A Maritime History by Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Eric Staples.
Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn by Amira El-Zein
Legends of the Fire Spirits by Robert Lebling
Michael Muhammad Knight’s Magic in Islam.
The Book of Charlatans, by Jamāl al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī, translated by Humphrey Davies (New York: Library of Arabic Literature/NYU Press, 2022). A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia: Ibn al-Mujawir’s tarikh al-mustabsir, edited by G. Rex Smith (London: The Hakluyt Society/Ashgate, 2008).
A Desolation Called Peace full epigraph:
"First, reality was suspended. All breaches to Inca protocol occurred at once: the rules governing personal contact (visual, oral, and corporal), drinking, and eating were broken. When Ciquinchara first met the conquerors he was allowed to do what no Indian could, and now the tables were turned. Since there was no signifying context to frame their interactions, the actors exposed themselves to limitless risk. Atahualpa could have been slaughtered, or Soto and Hernando poisoned. . . ." —Gonzolo Lamana, in “Beyond Exoticization and Likeness: Alterity and the Production of Sense in a Colonial Encounter,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no. 1 (2005): 4–39
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ME, ELSEWHERE:
Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/160245301-mariana-mas-books
Instagram: instagram.com/marianamasbooks
My channel in Spanish: youtube.com/@marianaylavida
