Algerian folk poetry in the face of the French occupation Thematic reading of selected poetic models

Abstract

French scholars entrusted with following up the paths of Algerian resistance to the French occupation in the region were keen to study Algerian folk literature, and this is because they firmly believed that it is an expression of the truth about the Algerian spirit of resistance to every colonial intruder. The poetry that they produced, because for them, was a carrier of codes, symbols, and historical and political allusions that were hostile to them.

The resistance to the French occupation was manifested in Algerian poetry through the poetic productions of a significant number of popular poets, those who were side by side with their revolutionary brothers in the face of the brutal enemy, and this study aims to reveal some of the poetic contents that embodied the resistance and struggle of these poets The populists against the colonialists through their poetry, as there was no