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Gibran Khalil Gibran (; Arabic: جبران خليل جبران / ALA-LC: Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān or Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān), commonly known as Khalil—also "Kahlil", as he used to sign his name in English—Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected this title in his lifetime. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and is one of the best-selling books of all time. Born in a village of the Ottoman-ruled Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate to a Maronite Christian family, the young Gibran immigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States in 1895. As his mother worked as a seamstress, he was enrolled at a school in Boston, where his creative abilities were quickly noticed by a teacher who presented him to Fred Holland Day. Gibran was sent back to his native land by his family at the age of fifteen to enroll at al-Hikma School in Beirut. Returning to Boston upon his youngest sister's death in 1902, he lost his older half-brother and his mother the following year, seemingly relying afterwards on his remaining sister's income from her work at a dressmaker's shop for some time. In 1904, drawings of Gibran were displayed for the
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Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation 9780824896874
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Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Names
CHAPTER 1. A Re-introduction
CHAPTER 2. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa in the Shadow of Early Alice Translations
CHAPTER 3. Yayoi Kusama, the Modern Alice (Through the Looking-Glass)
CHAPTER 4. A Profusion of Alices Flutter through Manga for Girls and Boys
CHAPTER 5. Detecting Alice on Page, Screen, and Street
CHAPTER 6. In Conclusions
Appendix: Japanese Alices
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author
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ALICE IN JAPANESE WONDERLANDS
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ALICE IN JAPANESE WONDERLANDS Translation, Adaptation, Mediation
Amanda Kennell
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