Heterolinguale humor in Fikry El Azzouzi’s trilogie Ayoub

The trilogy Ayoub (2018) by the Flemish-Moroccan writer Fikry El Azzouzi consists of Het schapenfeest (2010), Drarrie in de nacht (2014) and Alleen Zij (2016). These intercultural novels are characterized by the presence of humor and the use of street slang, interlaced with Arabic and Tamazight. This literary multilingualism or ‘heterolingualism’ (Grutman, 1997/2019) can be ‘manifest’ (immediately perceptible) or ‘latent’ (subtly present under a seemingly unilingual surface) (Radaelli ,2011; Suchet, 2014; Blum-Barth, 2021). The correlation between humor and heterolingualism will be... Mehr ...