Title Statements
- Full title :Decolonization and the decolonized / Albert Memmi ; translated by Robert Bononno.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:cop. 2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication:Minneapolis
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:cop. 2006.
Notes
"First published in France as Portrait du décolonisé: arabo-musulman et de quelques autres, copyright 2004 editions Gallimard, Paris."
Translated from the French.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 148 str. ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0816647348, 9780816647347, 0816647356, 9780816647354
- oclc:ocn440780719
- Dewey Decimal:325/.309174927
Table of Contents
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 vanquished -- Composite 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.
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