Wen-chin Ouyang

Wen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in which 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 suspicion of...

The Arabic novel has taken shape in the intercultural networks of exchange between East and West, past and present. Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel by Wen-chin Ouyang shows how this has created a politics of nostalgia which can be traced to discourses on aesthetics, ethics, and politics relevant to cultural and literary transformations of the Arabic-speaking world in...