Cette communication explore les représentations culturelles dans la littérature judéo-marocaine contemporaine à travers une double approche méthodologique articulant la lecture rapprochée (close reading) et la lecture distante (distant reading). En croisant une analyse stylistique fine de certains extraits d’œuvres de Nicole Elgrissy et Jacob Cohen avec des visualisations issues d’un corpus élargi (forums numériques, blogs diasporiques, archives littéraires numérisées), il s’agit de démontrer comment les outils technologiques permettent de renouveler l’étude des identités diasporiques, des stéréotypes et des mémoires collectives. Cette approche hybride s’inscrit dans les perspectives actuelles de la littérature comparée numérique, interrogeant à la fois les conditions matérielles de production des textes et les technologies d’exploration littéraire. Elle propose un dialogue entre humanités numériques, imagologie et études postcoloniales, en mettant en lumière les effets de médiation opérés par la technologie sur l’expérience littéraire et les récits culturels.

A Tale for the Time Being not only depicts the unfortunate life of Nao, a Japanese girl, but also portrays the identity crisis of her father, Haruki, who is dismissed by a technology company. Haruki's experiences point to the relationship between technology and ethics. This paper uses Haruki's encounters as a thread, employing literary ethical criticism as the core methodology, and combining it with historical and cultural context to analyze the profound impacts of technology on individual identity, ethical choices, and interpersonal connections in the novel. Technology firstly brings Haruki respect and honor, enabling him to achieve a decent life in America. However, when faced with the divergence between technology and morality, Haruki makes the right ethical choice, allowing his conscience to prevail: he opposes the application of the interface he designed for military weapons and attempts to persuade his team to incorporate an ethical awareness program to remind users to use it ethically. The company rejects his proposal and dismisses him. Yet, his complete detachment from technology later leads him to suffer a severe identity crisis: his hatred for technology robs him of his livelihood, and he returns to Japan consumed by self-doubt, repeatedly attempting suicide. Upon learning that his uncle, a Kamikaze pilot, had made the same choice during WWII, Haruki faces up to technology and uses it to rescue his daughter from online violence. Through the lens of literary ethical criticism, we see that the novel on one hand showcases the conflict between technology and ethics, criticizing the alienation of human emotions by technological rationality. On the other hand, it suggests that technology can also serve as a medium to heal trauma, reclaim ethical identity, and reconstruct ethical relationships.