Arabo standard e ʿāmmiyya: esclusione e inclusione nei fumetti di ʿUmar Khūrī

Adult comics have developed in the Arab world as an independent literary genre and are often used as a tool for social criticism. Linguistically, this new cultural product tends to favor the use of the vernacular (‘āmmiyya) as a written variety instead of standard Arabic (Høigilt 2017a, Høigilt 2019...

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Main Author: Giulia Aiello
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Language:deu
Published: University of Bologna 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://dive-in.unibo.it/article/view/16130
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description Adult comics have developed in the Arab world as an independent literary genre and are often used as a tool for social criticism. Linguistically, this new cultural product tends to favor the use of the vernacular (‘āmmiyya) as a written variety instead of standard Arabic (Høigilt 2017a, Høigilt 2019, De Blasio 2020, inter alia). However, in the comic books Ṣālūn Ṭāriq al-Khurāfī (The salon of Ṭāriq al-Khurāfī) and in its prequel Yūtūbiā (Utopia), both by the Lebanese author ‘Umar Khūrī, standard Arabic, used by some characters instead of the vernacular, also finds a place. Therefore, starting from the definition of language as a marker of the identity and as a symbolic resource (Suleiman 2013), the aim of the study is to investigate the link between language variety and the identity of the different characters and to examine what social and political functions language is invested with within the fictional societies of these comics strips.
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spelling doaj.art-bec139931fef456dbb29da8ee052d9c32023-05-08T12:41:13ZdeuUniversity of BolognaDive-In2785-32332023-01-0122255010.6092/issn.2785-3233/1613014480Arabo standard e ʿāmmiyya: esclusione e inclusione nei fumetti di ʿUmar KhūrīGiulia Aiello0Alma Mater Studiorum Università di BolognaAdult comics have developed in the Arab world as an independent literary genre and are often used as a tool for social criticism. Linguistically, this new cultural product tends to favor the use of the vernacular (‘āmmiyya) as a written variety instead of standard Arabic (Høigilt 2017a, Høigilt 2019, De Blasio 2020, inter alia). However, in the comic books Ṣālūn Ṭāriq al-Khurāfī (The salon of Ṭāriq al-Khurāfī) and in its prequel Yūtūbiā (Utopia), both by the Lebanese author ‘Umar Khūrī, standard Arabic, used by some characters instead of the vernacular, also finds a place. Therefore, starting from the definition of language as a marker of the identity and as a symbolic resource (Suleiman 2013), the aim of the study is to investigate the link between language variety and the identity of the different characters and to examine what social and political functions language is invested with within the fictional societies of these comics strips.https://dive-in.unibo.it/article/view/16130adult comicssocial criticismstandard/vernacular arabicauthoritarianism/exclusionresistance/inclusion
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Arabo standard e ʿāmmiyya: esclusione e inclusione nei fumetti di ʿUmar Khūrī
Dive-In
adult comics
social criticism
standard/vernacular arabic
authoritarianism/exclusion
resistance/inclusion
title Arabo standard e ʿāmmiyya: esclusione e inclusione nei fumetti di ʿUmar Khūrī
title_full Arabo standard e ʿāmmiyya: esclusione e inclusione nei fumetti di ʿUmar Khūrī
title_fullStr Arabo standard e ʿāmmiyya: esclusione e inclusione nei fumetti di ʿUmar Khūrī
title_full_unstemmed Arabo standard e ʿāmmiyya: esclusione e inclusione nei fumetti di ʿUmar Khūrī
title_short Arabo standard e ʿāmmiyya: esclusione e inclusione nei fumetti di ʿUmar Khūrī
title_sort arabo standard e ʿammiyya esclusione e inclusione nei fumetti di ʿumar khuri
topic adult comics
social criticism
standard/vernacular arabic
authoritarianism/exclusion
resistance/inclusion
url https://dive-in.unibo.it/article/view/16130
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