الخلاصة:
In the 1990s, Algeria witnessed the emergence of an emergent writing that accompanied the
bloody decade of the so-called "Black Decade". This writing was characterized by urgency, a label
that takes it out of the literary circle; however, it derived its legitimacy from the necessity of the
moment, which created for it its own reader, compensating for the blessing of the critical body and
drawing its attention at a late stage.
Not long after this period, in 1987, the first signs of what would become known as digital literature
appeared in the hands of an American writer named Michel Joyce. The digital moment had not yet
arrived in Algeria, but this new style of writing would share with the urgency of the Algerian text of
the 1990s the advantage of bypassing the critical establishment and relying on the recipient, as well
as the stigma of non-literacy that would be applied to it; for the question that digitization will pose
to literature is first and foremost a question of literariness. In terms of providing new publishing
spaces, it has changed not only the patterns of writing and reading, but also the patterns of our
representation of what is "literary" and what is "non-literary," since the basis for judging the literary
value of a digital or electronic text will not be based on artistic taste or a previous critical approach,
but rather on a reading rate approved by an audience that is often not specialized. .
The first thing that digital publishing has destroyed is the authority of the censor, be it political,
social, or artistic. The digital text is free of pre-textual normativity and is based on post-textual
"taste" and "mood. It is the audience of readers who have the authority to categorize and
discriminate texts, and this new form of writing will give the reader the power of interaction and the
act of writing itself. This new form of writing will give the reader the power of interaction and the
act of writing itself, an advantage that was certainly not available to the community of Algerian
writers - and their readers - whose writings were characterized by urgency because they were not
subject to the criteria of traditional criticism, but rather to the necessities of the political and
security context that imposed the style and form of writing.
This article seeks to discuss the gravity of what a new political or technical reality might bring to
the Arab literary scene in a state of denial of the existence of another literature that is not subject to
the authority of the institution; it grows and develops in the absence of schools that cannot absorb
such new forms of writing, which in any case will not wait for the critic's visa!