The Construction of Societal Imagery in the Moroccan Novel

Moroccan fiction has managed to construct a social imagery that reflects the aesthetics of the novel and a diversity of subjects and which is no longer the monopoly of the traditional elites or of the historical cities of Fes, Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakesh, and Tangier, but has extended to marginalized spaces that express feelings and issues other than those dealt with by well-known novels. In this way, the novel has become the imaginative memory of society, with its lifeblood and changing emotions, allowing the novelist to explore the adventure of writing. The writer thus enters an arena open to imagination and struggle while demonstrating the value of the novel and its role in understanding, recording, and interpreting a reality which no longer has clearly visible boundaries with the unreal, and between real events and possible events as portrayed by the novel.

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Moroccan fiction has managed to construct a social imagery that reflects the aesthetics of the novel and a diversity of subjects and which is no longer the monopoly of the traditional elites or of the historical cities of Fes, Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakesh, and Tangier, but has extended to marginalized spaces that express feelings and issues other than those dealt with by well-known novels. In this way, the novel has become the imaginative memory of society, with its lifeblood and changing emotions, allowing the novelist to explore the adventure of writing. The writer thus enters an arena open to imagination and struggle while demonstrating the value of the novel and its role in understanding, recording, and interpreting a reality which no longer has clearly visible boundaries with the unreal, and between real events and possible events as portrayed by the novel.

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