Kabyle feminine poetry and song as forms of literary expression, imagination and engagement or struggle

Abstract

Since the late 1920s, the Kabyle woman singer has been involved in the cultural and artistic scene through radio. She takes a place next to the man who monopolizes public discourse in traditional society. The texts of the female song, often autobiographical in color, are at the crossroads of two paradigms: culture, society and personal struggle. So what is the particularity that is felt in this feminine struggle through the singing text, images and their effects in culture and society?
Women, although a minority in male-dominated public discourse, are widely represented in the literary, oral and symbolic-goods-producing space. The texts of his songs constitute a corpus mediated in modern tools such as albums, CDs, most are available on the Internet. The power of the song, which is a form of literature, but also a means to bring out and immerse a female imaginary, we identify it via the female artist, singer, the female subject and social actor who negotiates her image, her struggle by imaginative and literary dimensions that the poetic function of the song offers her.