LANGUAGES AND POETICS OF PLACES IN 'HARVEST OF EXILE' BY TAOS AMROUCHE

The yard of the traditional house in the village, the source of the orchard of the family and the landscapes of Kabylia, the native region of his parents, are for Taos Amrouche places of memory whose spirit lives her novels. These are narrated in French, the language of the colonizer of the moment. It is in this language also that she collects and transmits tales, proverbs and legends, and other poems bequeathed by the ancestors. But it is in Kabyle, and proudly, that she reveals to the world the songs she has tasted at her mother Fadma who inherited them from her mother Aini, another link in the chain of transmission. The two languages, French and Kabyle, helped to forge the identity of Taos Amrouche. Through them, she knew how to combine modernity and tradition, a learned culture through her writings and orality through the interpretation of the songs that have come down to her from antiquity. Exiled in Paris, Taos Amrouche constantly recreates her Kabylie by a writing often mixed. The platform offered by the songs from the bowels of Africa is used to defend the language and culture of its Kabyle people.