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

Author/creator Memmi, Albert
Other author Bononno, Robert.
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxiv, 148 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Postcolonialism--Arab countries.
Cultural fusion--Arab countries.
Ethnopsychology--Arab countries.
National characteristics, Arab.
Arabs--Foreign countries.
Arab countries--Emigration and immigration.

Uniform titlePortrait du décolonisé arabo-musulman et de quelques autres. English
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.
General note"First published in France as Portrait du décolonisé: arabo-musulman et de quelques autres, copyright 2004 editions Gallimard, Paris."
General noteTranslated from the French.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2006013903
ISBN0816647348 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0816647356 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816647354
Standard identifier# 9780816647348

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks JV51 .M42B 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold