Decolonization and the decolonized / Albert Memmi ; translated by Robert Bononno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Memmi, Albert.

Contributor:

Bononno, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism--Arab countries.

Postcolonialism.

Cultural fusion--Arab countries.

Cultural fusion.

Ethnopsychology--Arab countries.

Ethnopsychology.

National characteristics, Arab.

Arabs--Foreign countries.

Arabs.

Arab countries--Emigration and immigration.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2006]

Summary:

In this time of global instability and widespread violence, Albert Memmi-author of the highly influential and groundbreaking work The Colonizer and the Colonized-turns his attention to the present-day situation of formerly colonized peoples. In Decolonization and the Decolonized, Memmi expands his intellectual engagement with the subject and examines the manifold causes of the failure of decolonization efforts throughout the world.As outspoken and controversial as ever, Memmi initiates a much-needed discussion of the ex-colonized and refuses to idealize those who are too often painted as haple

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The New Citizen; THE GREAT DISILLUSION; A PARADOXICAL POVERTY; CORRUPTION; IMPOSTERS AND POTENTATES; TYRANTS, ZEALOTS, AND SOLDIERS; DIVERSIONS, EXCUSES, AND MYTHS; A CONVENIENT CONFLICT; THE FAILURE OF THE INTELLECTUALS; FICTION AND REALITY; CULTURAL LETHARGY; THE CLERICS' PLOT; FROM REPRESSION TO VIOLENCE; A NATION BORN TOO LATE; NATIONS WITHOUT LAW; A SICK SOCIETY; GOING ABROAD; The Immigrant; THE BLESSINGS OF EXILE; FAILURE TWICE OVER; A NEW REFRAIN; THE GHETTO; HEAD SCARVES AND MÉTISSAGE; HUMILIATION; FROM HUMILIATION TO RESENTMENT

THE SOLIDARITY OF THE VANQUISHEDCORPORATE IDENTITY; ABANDONING THE MYTH OF RETURN; THE IMMIGRANT'S SON; THE ZOMBIE; FROM EXCLUSION TO DELINQUENCY; QUESTIONING INTEGRATION; RECIPROCAL DEPENDENCE; THE LANGUORS OF EUROPE; HOPE FOR THE DECOLONIZED?; TOWARD A NEW WORLD; Afterword

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 7, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4529-4376-1

OCLC:

871224198