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PROF Wen-Chin Ouyang's Outputs (40)

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_019

Harun 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.25ouy

The 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.

The Silk Roads of World Literature (2021)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W.-C. (2021). The Silk Roads of World Literature. In D. Ganguly (Ed.), The Cambridge History of World Literature (63-79). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009064446.003

Ideas, motifs, aesthetics, bodies of knowledge, texts, genres and literary worlds have travelled for centuries along Silk Road’s multiple networks of circulation connected through myriad contact hubs located across many temporal and spatial planes. T... Read More about The Silk Roads of World Literature.

Configurations of Multilingualism and World Literature (2021)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W.-C. Configurations of Multilingualism and World Literature. In J. Hiddleston, & W.-C. Ouyang (Eds.), Multilingual Literature as World Literature (282-303). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501360121.ch-16

This chapter moves away from the familiar paradigm of world literature that locates international circulation of literary works in translation. Instead it explores the diverse avenues of aesthetic encounters in the divergent configurations of multili... Read More about Configurations of Multilingualism and World Literature.

The Arabian Nights in Chinese and English Translations: Differing Patterns of Cultural Encounter and World Literature (2020)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W.-C. (2020). The Arabian Nights in Chinese and English Translations: Differing Patterns of Cultural Encounter and World Literature. In F. D. Shi, & G. G. Tan (Eds.), World Literature in Motion: Institution, Recognition, Location (433-472). ibidem-Verlag

By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls “the international literary space,” their power does not operate unilaterall... Read More about The Arabian Nights in Chinese and English Translations: Differing Patterns of Cultural Encounter and World Literature.

Solomon's Ring (2017)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W.-C. (2017). Solomon's Ring. In N. Al-Shaar (Ed.), The Qur'an and Adab: the Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam (433-471). Oxford University Press

Return or Departure? Homecoming in al-Tahtawi's Travelogue (2015)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W.-C. (2015). Return or Departure? Homecoming in al-Tahtawi's Travelogue. In F. Bauden (Ed.), Tropics of Travel 4: Homes. Proceedings of the International Conference Organized at the Université de Liège (13-15 January 2011) (89-108). Peeters

An entire chapter on homecoming distinguishes Rifa‘a Rafi‘ al-Tahtawi’s (1801-1873) famous travelogue written in Paris, Takhlis al-ibriz fi talkhis baris, from a majority of Arabic travel writing, which is always seemingly more preoccupied with reco... Read More about Return or Departure? Homecoming in al-Tahtawi's Travelogue.

Mujun, Junun, Funun (2014)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W.-C. (2014). Mujun, Junun, Funun. In A. Talib (Ed.), The Rude, the Bad, and the Ugly: Essays in Honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder (7-12). Oxbow Books, Gibb Memorial Trust

Lost in Nostalgia: Modernity's Repressed Other (2011)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W.-C. (2011). Lost in Nostalgia: Modernity's Repressed Other. In J. Parker, & T. Mathews (Eds.), Translation, Trauma, Tradition: The Classic and the Modern (191-210). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aosobl/9780199554591.003.0013

This chapter explores the conceptual category constructed around the figure of the cultural other in narratives of modernity, and looks at the ways in which its presence and absence are entangled in the politics of cultural construction, or reconstru... Read More about Lost in Nostalgia: Modernity's Repressed Other.