Shéhérazade : a transcultural character

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Sheherazade is a female literary figure, born of the ancient Indian male imagination, and created for an aristocratic educational purpose.

In the Persian kingdom, she has become a female model (desired) by the oriental masculine spirit.

Adopted by Arabo-Islamic culture, she has become a model of beauty, intelligence, culture, femininity, and obedience.

She is the female model sought by the Arab Muslim, as the narrator of the Thousand and one Nights.

Transported to France, Sheherazade has entered a new world owing to its adoption by the spirit and taste of the bourgeoisie and classicism.With the political and social evolution in France, then in Europe, Sheherazade has continued her evolution and become a free woman.

Back to modern and contemporary Arab culture, she has began a rapid and diverse evolution.

Thus, Sheherazade has become, thanks to her diachronic and geographical passage - between several Oriental and Western cultures - the symbol of beauty, femininity, and emancipation.

She has become a modern literary myth in world cultures.

The question is: why did Sheherazade experience this evolution? And what is the impact of different cultures on her development?