The Albert Memmi reader / Albert Memmi, edited by Jonathan Judaken, Michael Lejman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Memmi, Albert, author.

Contributor:

Judaken, Jonathan, 1968- editor.

Lejman, Michael, editor.

Series:

France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series

France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 388 p..)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Lincoln Nebraska, [2020]

Summary:

This anthology presents Albert Memmi's insights on the legacies of the colonial era, critical theories of race, and his own story as a French writer of Tunisian and Jewish descent, allowing readers to appreciate the full arc of one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Treatment

13. Literary Reflections

For a Novel of Meaning (1959)

Introduction to Anthology of Maghrebi Writers in French (1964)

A Literature of Separation: Introduction to Anthology of French Writers of the Maghreb (1969)

Preface to Francophone Writers of the Maghreb: An Anthology (1985)

What Language to Write In?: The Literary Homeland of the Colonized (1996)

Emergence of a Maghrebi Literature in French: The 1954 Generation (2001)

14. Decolonization and the Decolonized (2004)

The Decolonized Man (1967)

Fundamentalisms and Secularism (1989)

Uncle Makhlouf-1 (Notes for a Portrait)

My Travels

9. Jews and Arabs (1974)

Questions for Colonel Kadhafi

What Is an Arab Jew?

The Colonized Jew

Justice and Nation

The Arab Nation and the Israeli Thorn

Israel

10. The Desert, or The Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali Al-Mammi (1977)

What Historians Have to Say

What Historians Add

11. Dependence (1979)

Introduction

Fanaticism

Appendix: A Definition of Dependence

12. Racism (1982)

An Attempt at a Definition (1964)

What Is Racism? (1972)

Racism and Colonization

Racism and Anti-Semitism

Does the Jew Exist?

Assimilation

Self-Hatred

The Encystment

Sanctuary Values

Is There a Jewish Culture?

The Jew and the Revolution

The Way Out

Response of Albert Memmi to Richard Marienstras (1966)

Preface to the Israeli Edition (1976)

7. Dominated Man (1968)

Why I Wrote Dominated Man (1969)

The Paths of the Revolt

A Total Revolt

The Negro and the Jew (1968)

The Impossible Life of Frantz Fanon (1971)

The New Slaves

A Tyrant's Plea

Letter to Sally N'Dongo (1970)

8. The Scorpion, or The Imaginary Confession (1969)

Old Clothes

High School

The Choice

The Others

The War

The Inventory

3. Strangers (1955)

4. The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957)

Preface to the 1965 Edition

Does the Colonial Exist?

Camus, or the Colonizer of Good Will (La Nef) (1957)

Mythical Portrait of the Colonized

Conclusion

5. Portrait of a Jew (1962)

Revolution and Zionism (1947)

Why I Wrote Portrait of a Jew

The Problem

The Difference

The Myth

The Shadowy Figure

Conclusion-The Oppressed

"Little Portrait of a Jew" (1967)

6. The Liberation of the Jew (1966)

Preface

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Biographical Reflections

Sea and Sun (1967)

Growing Up as a Minority Child

The Stationary Nomad (2000)

The Land Within: Interview by Victor Malka (1976)

Tunisia, a Minor-League Country: The State of Affairs (1955-56)

Tunisian Diaries, 1955-56

Preface to Portrait of a Jew (1971)

Interview with Albert Memmi by Dov Maimon (2007)

The Fecundity of Exile (2003)

Passport for a Hoped Immortality (2007)

2. The Pillar of Salt (1953)

The City

The Blind Alley

The Sabbath

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-4962-2443-4

OCLC:

1231611473