الأقصوصة القصيرة في الأدب العربي الحديث - مقاربة تاريخية

In "The very short story in modern Arabic literature: An historical approach," Ibrahim Taha is definitley convinced that Arabic very short story, as one of the most remarkable innovations in modern Arabic literature, needs to be intensely discussed. Modern Arabic very short story has presumably emerged in early 1920. In the recent three decades, it has been witnessing an increasing development. The article is explicity meant to deal with the origins of modern Arabic very short story. True, one may notice some comments on other interrelated subjects. For instance, Taha shows some interest in the naming issue of this genre (or sub-genre). After a brief survey of various interested names of the very short story, he points out four sources of this phenomenon: (1) Arabic traditional forms of prose and narrative fiction; (2) contemporary historical and cultural circumstanses; (3) contemporary Western forms of minimalist fiction; (4) contemporary Arabic forms of minimalist fiction. All these sources equally affect the rise of the Arabic very short story. Some of them particularly affect the early evolution of this phenomenon, and others have a notable influence on its latter development. Referring to the interrelations between modern and classical Arabic narrative fiction, Taha strongly emphasize the urgent need to deal with the generic identity of the very short and history of Arabic narrative fiction as two inseparable processes.