LE COMIQUE ALGÉRIEN EN SITUATION COLONIALE
ALGERIAN COMIC IN A COLONIAL SITUATION

Summary/Abstract: Many Algerian authors and some Europeans have described laughter in Algeria and especially through the theatrical scene as a “weapon of political resistance” against the multidimensional machine of colonization. Linked to the comic genre of the stage, laughter vacillates at the antipodes of Algerian critics of the 4th art between “imitative laughter” and “hysterical laughter” in a situation of colonization. It is a social laughter of an enslaved community within the “colony-Algeria” (CA) that interests us through this contribution. We will try to question certain views and opinions on the basis of specifically Algerian documentation and in both languages (French and Arabic) and most of which remains unknown to foreign readers. From 1912 to 1926, it was the effect of laughter that marked a certain change in stage art in Algeria, shared and widely disseminated by a popular imagination within an extremely impoverished and deprived society.

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