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Egyptian narratives have undergone transformations due to ex/changes between cyber and book-bound texts. The publication of popular autobiographical narrative weblogs has aroused inquiries as to their literary status. This requires an examination of their reading processes as compared to avant-garde narratives in Arabic in order to verify the impact of media crossings and digitalization in promoting the hyper quality that subverts linearity in dominant discourse.
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Abdel-Messih, MT. Hyper texts: avant-gardism in contemporary Egyptian narratives. Neohelicon 36, 515–523 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-009-0020-6
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