Male Friendship and Brotherhood in Arabic and Chinese Cultures
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 22314
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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- Title of journal
- Alif, A Journal of Comparative Poetics
- Article number
- 145-172
- First page
- 145
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- -
- ISSN
- 11108673
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/26494289
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This article explores the twining of friendship and brotherhood in the literary imaginary in a comparative study of Arabic and Chinese writings. It highlights the efficacy of East-East comparative studies in enriching our experience of literary texts and expanding the horizon of comparative literature. It takes advantage of the unequal developments in the discourses on male friendship and the unparalleled distribution of these discourses among different genres in two divergent literary traditions in order to reconsider the meaning and significance of male friendship in imagining an ideal state and the unravelling of this ideal state when friendship bonds are breached.