Sarcasm and Taboo in the Moroccan Mediascape after the February 20 Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2173226 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abdelmjid Kettioui (0000-0002-3227-7384, L'École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 405-423 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-6815 • E-ISSN: 1469-9346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13696815.2019.1701426 |
| OpenAlex | W3006478294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article aims to conceptualize the interplay between sarcasm, scatology and writing in Darija (Moroccan Arabic or Al-Maghribia) on the web in a post-uprising era. It focuses on the new Darijophone prose that emerged after 20 February 2011 protests in Goud and The Newزحيليكر (The New Bumpkin). Originating with absurdist February 20 movement founder member, Mohammed Sokrat, this writing genre is realist, vulgar, profane, taboo-breaking, and borrows from the toilet space to poke fun at the schizophrenia, herd mentality and populism that attend a modernizing society under a neoliberal regime. A vocabulary of trash, waste, filthy social types and risqué gags has informed a unique online minoritarian prose that is unpopular, yet widely read. This article studies the virtual politics and poetics of dirt and laughter in written Darija. Writing at the interstices of commitment and co-optation, this subcultural mode of knowledge production reveals Moroccan youth's heretofore suppressed yet incessant longing for change in a post-uprising context of disillusionment
Absurdism · Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Irony · Laughter · Literature · Media studies · Poetics · Politeness · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sarcasm · Social media · Sociology · Taboo · Anthropology · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Political theory and Gramsci · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · History · Law
Disgust
Powers of Horror
Life as Politics
Festivalization of Urban Space in Morocco
Debating Darija
Francophone Voices of the "New" Morocco in Film and Print
Dārija and Changing Writing Practices in Morocco
On the Postcolony
Ihbat
The aesthetic and practical fields of excrementality ofL'boulevardfestival
Necropolitics
Mobilizations in a hybrid regime
Po(o)pular culture
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |