Short Stories Anthology in Saudi Literature Anthology of writers as a model

Abstract

The study attempted to indicate the anthology of the writers’ stories through inventorying, analyzing and comparing, to identify the motives for preparing these blogs, their patterns and characteristics. Its main motives were monitoring and documentation, consolidating the short story in the local and Arab scene, introducing its most prominent writers and models, raising the taste of the recipient, encouraging talents, and addressing some local community issues.

The research monitored thirty blogs, which emerged since the early eighties and their prosperity during the first two decades of the new millennium. This happened in proportion to the civilizational transformation and the flourishing of narrative arts. It was divided into four types; the first was anthology of short story writers in eight blogs.  The second was the anthology of critical studies in four blogs, the third was a women's anthology, which specialized in women's writings only, in nine blogs, and the fourth was E-publishing anthology, concerned with printing selected models of what is published on websites, in nine blogs.

It was noted that most of the anthologies are devoid of in-depth introductions that explain their nature, approach, purpose, and the interest of Arab researchers in the Saudi narrative scene and the transformations of society, especially the issue of women.

   The women's anthology has also emerged remarkably as a reflection of the civilizational transformations experienced by Saudi society, reaching a third of the anthology. As for the electronic publishing anthology, it was keen to present new writers, search for a wider space, and immortalize its texts in light of the disappearance of many websites.

The research also included statistical tables and comparative graphs, showing the chronology of the anthology's appearance in general, the sequence of the issuance of each style, the number of writers in each blog, and the percentage of female writers in it; In order to get more results that are accurate.