The "Malhoun" folk poetry in the Al-Wunshiris area - meeting, listening, making use of, defending identity -

Abstract

Algerian folk poetry was very famous during the era of French colonialism, and it gained literary authority in Algerian society, where it became a literary and cultural heritage that deserves attention, study and research. It is a popular memory that expresses the pain and hopes of the Algerian people. It sprouts from salty poetry, knowledge and cultural fields, and it was a dose of antidote and antibiotic to get rid of the pandemic of French colonization, which put incantations to obliterate the elements of national identity.So, the salty poetry came as a talisman for recreation of the soul, and sowing hope and enthusiasm for the revolutionary sense, in an organized popular poetic form, and in a language mixed between the vernacular, the local dialect and the classical Arabic language, and the lifting of the veil that was submerged and buried from colonialism, which took folk literature as a tool for diving into the depths of the Algerians. , Foil and kidnapping of colonialism, and it is no longer possible for change to spread, so falsehoods cannot spread in Algeria. Folk poetry is the recitation of wisdom, and the likes of gossip and gossip, and the inheritance of generations without shading and fraud, and the invalidation of the sayings of the occupation.