Dialect Literature and Language Ideology in Gaddafi’s Libya: A Claim for Prestige

Articolo della rivista, Anno VIII, numero 15, giugno 2018
The present review article offers a discussion of the two issues of dialectal prestige and the use of colloquial Arabic in literature, based on the analysis of the volume Ḫarārīf lībiyyah (Libyan Folktales). The collection of folktales, published in 2008 by the Libyan General Council of Culture, is preceded by an [...]