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Aspects of Arabic Online Literature in the Gulf

dc.creatorLenze, Nele
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-07T09:31:35Z
dc.date.available2022-01-07T09:31:35Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractLiterature and poetry in Arab countries developed upon a rich tradition of oral story-telling and are still vital parts of cultural life all over the Gulf. In the age of new media, distribution of literary production has changed and now offers a wide spectrum for story transmission. As a consequence, online literature has emerged as a popular means of communication; short stories posted on blogs, in forums, and online publishing houses generate much commentary. This exchange of thoughts appears to be important for many web-users in the Gulf and triggers stories to “travel” from one virtual location to the other and affects the notions of author and censorship. Generally, it seems that Arabic online literature differs from online literature in other regions of the world. Until now, there exists only limited academic research on this phenomenon. Based on the analysis of a large text corpus of original Arabic online literature and interviews that I have conducted with authors in early 2010, this paper serves as a short overview of the concepts of online literature in the Gulf and discusses its various characteristics.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17740
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/18706
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRoberto Simanowski
dc.publisher.placeBasel
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1617-6901
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectDigital Poetryen
dc.subjectnet literatureen
dc.subjectArabiaen
dc.subjectmedia cultureen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleAspects of Arabic Online Literature in the Gulfen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-01-07T10:39:27
local.source.epage11
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleNr. 40
local.source.spage1
local.source.volume12

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