Abstract EN:

Our work is an attempt at exploring a series essays published by some natives from algeria during the french colonial period. As early as 1880 the "resistance-dialogue" is marked by some writings expressing a particular voice, between a colonial discourse reiterated, and claims for the indigeneous community. The first intellectuals were asking for more justice, some equality, schools and roads, and less taxation (income tax and collective sanctions) in favour of their fellow- countrymen. The issues studied here are : religion, the arabic language, women, schooling and free access to foreste-lands. Thus, these intellectuals mapped out the symbolic path of their resistance. 1930 is the milestone of a nation-oriented discourse and of more radical claims. The end of the colonial period is foreseen an clearly stated. The 1945 caesura triggers a revival of history an the emergence of abdelkader and jugurtha as the ancestral figures of resistance. Few essays have been written during the liberation war. Fanon and lacheraf's writings, like most other writings, althrough rooted in the colonial discourse are already looking towards the post-independance period. Their writings analyse the ongoing process and herald the first denunciations of the deviated revolution. Their discourse is no longer addressing the "other" but directed toward their own society. Already the figure of the post-independence intellectual is sketched, and his discourse is marked by awareness but remains iconoclastic. Beside the study of women writing is dealt with separately and goes beyond 1962 to show the continuum of a particular type of writing