الرمزية الوطنية في شخصية الأمير عبد القادر : قراءة في خطاب كاتب ياسين بفرنسا 1947 م

Abstract EN

This intervention deals with an important topic related to one of the pioneers of the Algerian resistance, namely Emir Abdelkader, who is considered a symbol of the popular resistance against the French colonial Crusade, which not only brought down the political system of the Algerian state, but deliberately destroyed a comprehensive civilization that affected the land, the people and culture with all its elements of identity.

Because the circumstances were stronger than his steadfastness, Prince Abdul Qadir ended up by surrendering.

This led to the emergence of many fallacies trying to distort his attitudes and his nationalist positions.

Therefore, the Kateb Yacine was one of the literary writers that defended Emir Abdelkader and his nationalist and moral attitudes.

His young age (17 years) did not prevent him from facing colonialism and giving a lecture in France in 1947, in order to respond to the distortion and falsification that wrapped up the biography and jihad of Emir Abdelkader.

The writer Kateb Yacine focused on refuting the thesis of the civilizational vacuum in Algeria, and the greatness of the project for a unified nation that Emir Abdelkader had proclaimed.

He also defended his revolutionary struggle, denying the fact that he was friend of France.

He ended it with an insight on colonialism, and its role in leading Algeria into a A civilizational vicious circle and defending the Algerian national identity, represented in the person of Emir Abdelkader.