Review of: Richard van Leeuwen. The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings; and Muhsin J. al-Musawi. The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures
(2022)
Journal Article
Ouyang, W.-C. Review of: Richard van Leeuwen. The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings; and Muhsin J. al-Musawi. The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures. Middle Eastern Literatures, 25(1), 66-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2022.2131240
PROF Wen-Chin Ouyang's Outputs (3)
Harun al-Rashid in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues (2022)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W.-C. (2022). Harun al-Rashid in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues. In M. van Berkel, & L. Osti (Eds.), The Historian of Islam at Work: Essays in Honor of Hugh N. Kennedy (340-355). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004525245_019Harun al-Rashid has a powerful presence in the Medieval Arabic Literary Imaginary. This chapter explores the imaginings of the character, entourage and rule of Harun al-Rashid in medieval Arabic storytelling and adab works and examines the role this... Read More about Harun al-Rashid in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues.
Worlding of Realism: The Case of Naguib Mahfouz (2022)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W.-C. (2022). Worlding of Realism: The Case of Naguib Mahfouz. In M. Higonnet, S. B. Jørgensen, & S. E. Larsen (Eds.), Landscapes of Realism: Rethiking Literary Realisms in Comparative Perspectives. II. Pathways through Realism (703-720). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxiii.25ouyThe routes of European realism into Arabic cultural and literary expressions are many. They also overlap in both the travel and arrival of this complex package of politics and aesthetics, simultaneously and randomly, through translation and adaptatio... Read More about Worlding of Realism: The Case of Naguib Mahfouz.