PROF Wen-Chin Ouyang's Outputs (6)

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

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.

Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema (2022)
Thesis
Yeung, S. Y. Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This project offers the framework of “semiotics of allegory” as an alternative to Fredric Jameson’s national allegory for studying non-Western cultural products by emphasising their plural meanings of signs and the importance of situating their readi... Read More about Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema.

A study of 80-hou writers: Youth narrative, multimodality, and subjectivity in 21st-century Chinese youth literature (2022)
Thesis
Gamberini, F. A study of 80-hou writers: Youth narrative, multimodality, and subjectivity in 21st-century Chinese youth literature. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Common critiques surrounding the balinghou cultural phenomenon often qualify their literary work as bestsellers lacking any appreciable literary or social value. The incredible commercial success of their fiction combined with the idol-like personali... Read More about A study of 80-hou writers: Youth narrative, multimodality, and subjectivity in 21st-century Chinese youth literature.

Travel Inside and Outside: Maghribi Resistance as a Literary Force (2022)
Thesis
Blalack, J. S. Travel Inside and Outside: Maghribi Resistance as a Literary Force. (Thesis). SOAS University of London