Reading Moroccan fiction in the digital age
Abdelouahed Stittou's novel Zohra Liza as a case study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3979244 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abdelkarim Ait Hadda (Laboratory Values, Society, and Development (LVSD), Ibn Zohra University, Agadir, Morocco, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1102-1126 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629387.2024.2338077 |
| OpenAlex | W4394821921 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This article explores twenty-first Century Moroccan fiction with a focus on the novels published on social media. By analysing Abdelouahed Stittou's first Arabic Facebook novel, Zohra Liza, as a case study, I highlight the impact of digital technologies, namely social media platforms, on the contemporary North African novel. On the one hand, I suggest that using Facebook as a medium for publishing Zohra Liza profoundly redefined the roles of the author, Abdelouahed Stittou, who had to adjust to the new reading habits of social media users.In this respect, I contend that this shift in the author/ reader dynamics began with reader response theory, but it came to greater prominence with the advent of digital literature. On the other hand, following Brian T. Edwards (2016), I suggest that the massive circulation of global cultural products, such as Hollywood movies, in the digital age provided a vast representational repertoire for Stittou from which he creatively drew while writing Zohra Liza. To be precise, Hollywood cinema, which is one of the fastest circulating cultural forms globally, found its way into the representational repertoire of Stittou and he creatively incorporates a number of Hollywood films into the fabric of his novel
Art · Art history · Close reading · Digital media · Focus (optics · Hollywood · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Publishing · Reading (process · Repertoire · Social media · Sociology · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Computer Science · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Writing Space
Modernity at large
Cultural Encounters in the Arab World
Politics and Digital Literature in the Middle East
Analyzing Digital Fiction
Globalization and American Popular Culture
The genesis of the Moroccan novel in Arabic
After the American Century
Fandom and coercive empowerment
The Reading Process
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |