{"id":3601,"date":"2011-11-16T12:28:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T09:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2011-11-16T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T09:28:49","slug":"stranger-magic-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/11\/16\/stranger-magic-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Magic reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marina Warner&#8217;s new book on magic and the reception of the Arabian Nights, <em>Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/nov\/11\/stranger-magic-marina-warner-review\">reviewed<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The second part attends to the Arab and European habit of attributing foreignness to evil magicians. These dark enchanters come from dark places (Africa and India) and profess dark (pre-Islamic) faiths. During the Enlightenment, black magic became inevitably dark skinned; necromancy became inseparable from &#8220;nigromancy&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of obvious relevance to much weird fiction from the 1920s and 30s, and Lovecraft&#8217;s use of mad Arab wizards, etc.  Warner is not your usual theory-clotted lit crit academic, she&#8217;s a proper historian and independent scholar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marina Warner&#8217;s new book on magic and the reception of the Arabian Nights, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/11\/16\/stranger-magic-reviewed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}