The Colonizer and the Colonized"A relentless reciprocity binds the colonizer to the colonized -- his product and his fate. Memmi has vividly recorded this. With him, we find that the colonialist system is a form in motion, born towards the middle of the last century, that will manufacture its own destruction of itself. For a long time now, colonialism has cost mother countries more than it has earned." -- From the introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. |
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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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User Review - Bob - GoodreadsClassic, written in an easy to read narrative style, about the relationship between colonized peoples and the people who colonize them. Memmi is an Algerian Jew, so he has a unique perspective on Africans being colonized by Europeans Read full review
Contents
Does the colonial exist? | 3 |
The colonizer who refuses | 19 |
The colonizer who accepts | 45 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Colonizer and the Colonized A condor book BP 232 Volume 232 of Beacon BP Beacon Press Beacon paperback, BP232 Issue 232 of Beacon paperbacks |
| Author | Albert Memmi |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | Beacon Press, 1967 |
| ISBN | 0807002976, 9780807002971 |
| Length | 153 pages |
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