Wen-Chin Ouyang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 698908 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Wen-Chin Ouyang |
| PRENOMES | Wen-Chin |
| SOBRENOME | Ouyang |
| ASSINATURA | OUYANG W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3356-7391 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Commodities and Literature
Global commodities, from tea and sugar to coal and oil, have had an enduring presence in literary texts. Commodity cultures have also shaped literary ones, from the early influence of the literary coffeehouse to the serial novels facilitated by print's own emergence as a mass commodity. This book offers an accessible overview of the many intersections between literature and commodities. Tracing the stories of goods as diverse as coffee, rum, opiu…
Framing and Meaning
Framing in The Thousand and One Nights (Alf layla wa-layla) brings together not only people and their stories but also temporalities, geographies and destinies. It stages coincidental encounters of these in entangled story lines (story within story) of the Nights and generates meaning through the strangeness (gharāba) of the narrated coincidences and the wonder (ʿajab) effect of the entanglement of temporalities, geographies and destinies result…
Arabic posthuman
Bees, beehives and beekeepers have been integral to the literary imaginary since time immemorial. The ordered communal life of bees, their disciplined industry and productivity, the role they play
Creative Multilingualism
Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto is a welcome contribution to the field of modern languages, highlighting the intricate relationship between multilingualism and creativity, and, crucially, reaching beyond an Anglo-centric view of the world. Intended to spark further research and discussion, this book appeals to young people interested in languages, language learning and cultural exchange. It will be a valuable resource for academics, educato…
Alexander Bevilacqua, The Republic of Arabic Letters
Voices from Kazakhstan
Nazarbayev University hosted the 5th International Symposium on Asian Languages and Literatures (ADES) between 20 and 22 June in 2019 ([email protected]) co-sponsored by Erciyes University and Ah
Elizabeth M. Holt, Fictitious Capital
Orientalism and World Literature
Pierre Cachia’s masterful literary biography of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (1956) identified cultural exchange and particularly translation as the catalyst for the Egyptian cultural and literary renaissance epitomized in the person of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (1889-1973). This paper takes Cachia as a point of departure and pursues an understanding of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn within the framework of world literature and locates his vision of Egyptian modernity and national identity in th…
Pierre Cachia 1921–2017
Pierre Cachia slipped away peacefully on 1 April 2017, a few days shy of his ninety-sixth birthday, surrounded by his children and grandchildren. With the passing of this key architect of Arabic studies, those of us who have studied and worked with him will not only mourn the loss of a friend, teacher, and mentor, but also the irretrievable era in which a first generation of postwar American and European Arabists and Orientalists made tremendous …
The Qur’an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction
How is it possible to comprehend and assess the impact of the Qur’an on the literary expressions of the Hui Chinese Muslims, who have been integrated into Sinophone and China’s multicultural community since the third/ninth century, when the first ‘translations’ of the Qur’an in Chinese made by non-Muslims from Japanese and English appeared only in 1927 and 1931, and that by a Muslim from Arabic in 1932? This paper looks at the ways in which the Q…
Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel
Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel
Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel
Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and tradition Wen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in it engages with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective. Taking love and desire as the central tropes , the story of the Arabic novel is presented as a series of failed, illegitimate love affairs, all tainted by its …
Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel
An Ethical Underworld? Legendary con Artists in Arabic Vernacular Fiction
Preamble: The Outlaw as Hero he commercial and critical success of Ang Lee's martial arts film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), 1 is an important landmark not only in the history of Chinese Cinema but also in the history of Hollywood.It departs from earlier Hollywood films about the East, such as the Fu Manchu series, and strikes out on its own in its quest for a place in the Hollywood pantheon.Its difference from the Arabian Nights films …
Fictive Mode, ‘Journey to the West’, and Transformation of Space
I begin my exploration of ‘Ali Mubarak (1823/4–1893) and the discourses on modernization ‘performed’ in his only attempt at fiction, ‘Alam al-Din (The Sign of Religion, 1882), with a quote from Guy Davenport because it elegantly sums up a key theoretical principle underpinning any discussion of cultural transformation and, more particularly, of modernization. Locating ‘Ali Mubarak and his only fictional work at the juncture of the transformation …
Whose story is it? Sindbad the sailor in literature and film
Sindbad the Sailor is one of the most popular stories in the world. It has been recast continuously in children's stories, Hollywood films, Arabic poetry and modern American and Arabic fiction. In its travel across cultures, historical eras, genres and media, the story has always managed to transform itself into something that is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. This article looks at the workings of the narrative, which effect such transfo…
The Epical Turn of Romance
Metamorphoses of Scheherazade in literature and film
This article traces the metamorphoses of Scheherazade, the heroine of The Thousand and One Nights' frame-tale, in modern fiction and film. It examines these metamorphoses in the context of a discussion of the function of narrative across cultures and disciplines. It looks more particularly at the role of genre ideologies-paradigms of knowledge implicit in generic expectations, ideologies external to genre, and subjectivities in narrative transfor…
Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture
For the first time this book provides an examination of the impulses that went into the making of literary criticism in medieval Arab-Islamic culture. It traces the resulting characteristics of this area of intellectual enquiry and grounds the field of Arabic literary criticism in its social, intellectual and cultural context (3rd/9th century to the 5th/11th century)
Orientalism and World Literature
Pierre Cachia’s masterful literary biography of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (1956) identified cultural exchange and particularly translation as the catalyst for the Egyptian cultural and literary renaissance epitomized in the person of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (1889-1973). This paper takes Cachia as a point of departure and pursues an understanding of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn within the framework of world literature and locates his vision of Egyptian modernity and national identity in th…
The Epical Turn of Romance
Metamorphoses of Scheherazade in literature and film
This article traces the metamorphoses of Scheherazade, the heroine of The Thousand and One Nights' frame-tale, in modern fiction and film. It examines these metamorphoses in the context of a discussion of the function of narrative across cultures and disciplines. It looks more particularly at the role of genre ideologies-paradigms of knowledge implicit in generic expectations, ideologies external to genre, and subjectivities in narrative transfor…
Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture
For the first time this book provides an examination of the impulses that went into the making of literary criticism in medieval Arab-Islamic culture. It traces the resulting characteristics of this area of intellectual enquiry and grounds the field of Arabic literary criticism in its social, intellectual and cultural context (3rd/9th century to the 5th/11th century)
The Epical Turn of Romance
Metamorphoses of Scheherazade in literature and film
This article traces the metamorphoses of Scheherazade, the heroine of The Thousand and One Nights' frame-tale, in modern fiction and film. It examines these metamorphoses in the context of a discussion of the function of narrative across cultures and disciplines. It looks more particularly at the role of genre ideologies-paradigms of knowledge implicit in generic expectations, ideologies external to genre, and subjectivities in narrative transfor…
Whose story is it? Sindbad the sailor in literature and film
Sindbad the Sailor is one of the most popular stories in the world. It has been recast continuously in children's stories, Hollywood films, Arabic poetry and modern American and Arabic fiction. In its travel across cultures, historical eras, genres and media, the story has always managed to transform itself into something that is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. This article looks at the workings of the narrative, which effect such transfo…
Fictive Mode, ‘Journey to the West’, and Transformation of Space
I begin my exploration of ‘Ali Mubarak (1823/4–1893) and the discourses on modernization ‘performed’ in his only attempt at fiction, ‘Alam al-Din (The Sign of Religion, 1882), with a quote from Guy Davenport because it elegantly sums up a key theoretical principle underpinning any discussion of cultural transformation and, more particularly, of modernization. Locating ‘Ali Mubarak and his only fictional work at the juncture of the transformation …
An Ethical Underworld? Legendary con Artists in Arabic Vernacular Fiction
Preamble: The Outlaw as Hero he commercial and critical success of Ang Lee's martial arts film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), 1 is an important landmark not only in the history of Chinese Cinema but also in the history of Hollywood.It departs from earlier Hollywood films about the East, such as the Fu Manchu series, and strikes out on its own in its quest for a place in the Hollywood pantheon.Its difference from the Arabian Nights films …
Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel
Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and tradition Wen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in it engages with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective. Taking love and desire as the central tropes , the story of the Arabic novel is presented as a series of failed, illegitimate love affairs, all tainted by its …
Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel
Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel
Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel
The Qur’an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction
How is it possible to comprehend and assess the impact of the Qur’an on the literary expressions of the Hui Chinese Muslims, who have been integrated into Sinophone and China’s multicultural community since the third/ninth century, when the first ‘translations’ of the Qur’an in Chinese made by non-Muslims from Japanese and English appeared only in 1927 and 1931, and that by a Muslim from Arabic in 1932? This paper looks at the ways in which the Q…
Pierre Cachia 1921–2017
Pierre Cachia slipped away peacefully on 1 April 2017, a few days shy of his ninety-sixth birthday, surrounded by his children and grandchildren. With the passing of this key architect of Arabic studies, those of us who have studied and worked with him will not only mourn the loss of a friend, teacher, and mentor, but also the irretrievable era in which a first generation of postwar American and European Arabists and Orientalists made tremendous …
Orientalism and World Literature
Pierre Cachia’s masterful literary biography of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (1956) identified cultural exchange and particularly translation as the catalyst for the Egyptian cultural and literary renaissance epitomized in the person of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (1889-1973). This paper takes Cachia as a point of departure and pursues an understanding of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn within the framework of world literature and locates his vision of Egyptian modernity and national identity in th…
Creative Multilingualism
Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto is a welcome contribution to the field of modern languages, highlighting the intricate relationship between multilingualism and creativity, and, crucially, reaching beyond an Anglo-centric view of the world. Intended to spark further research and discussion, this book appeals to young people interested in languages, language learning and cultural exchange. It will be a valuable resource for academics, educato…
Alexander Bevilacqua, The Republic of Arabic Letters
Voices from Kazakhstan
Nazarbayev University hosted the 5th International Symposium on Asian Languages and Literatures (ADES) between 20 and 22 June in 2019 ([email protected]) co-sponsored by Erciyes University and Ah
Elizabeth M. Holt, Fictitious Capital
Arabic posthuman
Bees, beehives and beekeepers have been integral to the literary imaginary since time immemorial. The ordered communal life of bees, their disciplined industry and productivity, the role they play
Framing and Meaning
Framing in The Thousand and One Nights (Alf layla wa-layla) brings together not only people and their stories but also temporalities, geographies and destinies. It stages coincidental encounters of these in entangled story lines (story within story) of the Nights and generates meaning through the strangeness (gharāba) of the narrated coincidences and the wonder (ʿajab) effect of the entanglement of temporalities, geographies and destinies result…
Commodities and Literature
Global commodities, from tea and sugar to coal and oil, have had an enduring presence in literary texts. Commodity cultures have also shaped literary ones, from the early influence of the literary coffeehouse to the serial novels facilitated by print's own emergence as a mass commodity. This book offers an accessible overview of the many intersections between literature and commodities. Tracing the stories of goods as diverse as coffee, rum, opiu…
Philosophy (17 obras) · Art (15 obras) · Literature (14 obras) · History (13 obras) · Linguistics (13 obras) · Islamic Studies and History (12 obras) · Arabic (11 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Aesthetics (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras)