Youcef Ou Kaci’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Algerian poet
Is Poet 
From Algeria 
Type Literature 
Gender male

Youcef Ou Kaci (Yusef U Qasi) était un grand poète kabyle du XVIe – XVIIe siècle. Né dans les années 1680, appartenant à la tribu des At Jennad dans un petit village qui se nomme Ait Gouaret Grande Kabylie, il est dans la tradition orale le plus ancien poète kabyle connu.

Il est l’auteur de nombreuses compositions poétiques, dont certains vers sont encore de nos jours cités faisant autorité. Voyageant à travers la Kabylie, il a également rapporté et commenté, comme témoins de son temps, portant un regard parfois manichéen, les péripéties de ces contemporains. De sa poésie transparaît donc la société kabyle de l’époque ; droits coutumiers, code de l’honneur, ou encore identité et guerre tribale.

Doué d’un large savoir oral, le poète, par la suite considéré comme figure sainte, portait le titre d’amusnaw, sage savant, et bénéficiait ainsi d’une large audience auprès de la population. Il pouvait donc notamment jouer le rôle d’intermédiaire dans divers conflits, et aurait ainsi permis de mettre fin au conflit tribal opposant sa tribu et celle, devenue amie, des At Yenni.

Youcef Ou Kaci serait mort dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIe siècle. Son tombeau se trouve à Ait Gouaret (commune de Timizart, daïra de Ouaguenoun, wilaya de Tizi-Ouzou).

Bibliographie

  • Kamel Bouamara, article « Yusef-U-Qasi » dans Hommes et femmes de Kabylie – Collectif sous la direction de Salem Chaker, éd. Edisud, 2000 (ISBN 2-7449-0234-9).
  • Mouloud Mammeri, Poèmes kabyles anciens (textes berbères et français), Paris, Maspéro, 1980 (ISBN 2-7071-1150-3) [réed. Paris, La Découverte, 2001 (ISBN 2-7071-3426-0)].
  • Camille Lacoste-Dujardin, article « Youcef Ou Kaci » du Dictionnaire de la culture berbère en Kabylie, La Découverte, Paris, 2005 (ISBN 2-7071-4588-2).
  • Mohamed Ghobrini, Le Cavalier Poète », éd. El-Amel, 2001, 94 pages.

    Références

    Voir aussi

    • Muhend U M’hend (Si), autre poète kabyle, un des plus grands et des plus connus.
    • Muhend U Lh’usin (Ccix), saint poète vénéré du XIXe siècle.
    • Portail de la Kabylie
    • Portail de la poésie
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