Coming-of-Age of Teenage Female Arab Gothic Fiction: A Feminist Semiotic Study

This feminist semiotic study explores the folkloric imaginary of jinn in context children’s and young adults’ Arab Gothic literature. Across Middle East, is a common trope literature, folklore oral storytelling who, diegetic terms, can manifest as figure an aging female, deranged older woman or succubus (known sa’lawwa Arabic). In this study, novel framework developed to explore extent which female either haunts liberates girls’ coming-of-age fictions. issue addressed via reading narratives Eastern author @Ranoy7, exploring appeal her scary stories presented on YouTube. Findings reveal tacit fears, ambivalences tensions embodied within sign jinn. Overall, research develops insights into motif its role constituting females misogynistic gendered objects social media story explored.