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صداقة الرجال والأخوّة في الثقافتين العربية والصينية / Male Friendship and Brotherhood in Arabic and Chinese Cultures

Ouyang, Wen-Chin

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Abstract

This article explores the relationship between friendship and brotherhood and unpacks their twining in the literary imaginary in a comparative study of Arabic and Chinese writings. The purpose is to consider the efficacy of East-East comparative studies in enriching our experience of literary texts and in expanding the horizon of comparative literature. It takes advantage of the unequal developments in the discourses on male friendship in Arabic and Chinese literatures, and the unparallel distribution of these discourses among different genres of writing in two divergent literary traditions, and reconsiders the meaning and significance of male friendship in imagining an ideal state in which justice prevails, and in the unraveling of this ideal state when the bonds of friendship are breached.

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Ouyang, W.-C. (2015). صداقة الرجال والأخوّة في الثقافتين العربية والصينية / Male Friendship and Brotherhood in Arabic and Chinese Cultures. Alif: maǧallaẗ al-balāġaẗ al-muqāranaẗ, 36, 145-172

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 31, 2015
Publication Date Dec 31, 2015
Deposit Date Apr 22, 2016
Publicly Available Date Jan 1, 2116
Print ISSN 1110-8673
Electronic ISSN 3050-760X
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 36
Pages 145-172
Publisher URL https://www.jstor.org/stable/26494289