The novel genre in Morocco: its demarcation and periods

Abstract

This study broaches the role played by critical literary tendencies in Morocco upon the establishment and demarcation of the genre of the novel, which ought to be understood here as a cultural institution related to cultural and social conventions. Thus, this study poses, from the formation phases of the genre until the late years of the past century, how the theoretical positions had their influences, regard-ing the fiction limits, the difference between novel and autobiography, which texts enter the canon, and its own boundaries y periods.