The Colonizer and the ColonizedFirst published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike. |
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User Review - GalenWiley - LibraryThingAlbert Memmi's classic work stands as one of the most powerful and psychologically penetrating studies of colonial oppression ever written. Dissecting the minds of both the oppressor and the oppressed ... Read full review
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A powerful text that furnishes readers with complex portraits of the two sides of an age-old fight. He does not point fingers at individuals, he indicts a broken system set up for failure which breeds failure.
Contents
Does the colonial exist? | 3 |
The colonizer who refuses | 19 |
The colonizer who accepts | 45 |
Mythical portrait of the colonized | 79 |
Situations of the colonized | 90 |
The two answers of the colonized | 119 |
Afterword by Susan Gilson Miller | 155 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Colonizer and the Colonized |
| Author | Albert Memmi |
| Contributors | Jean-Paul Sartre, Susan Gibson Miller |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Beacon Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0807003018, 9780807003015 |
| Length | 208 pages |
| Subjects | › Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism Social Science / Discrimination Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity |
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