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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Portrait du décolonisé arabo-musulman et de quelques autres. English
Main Author: Memmi, Albert
Other Authors: Bononno, Robert
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:
Postcolonialism > Arab countries.
Cultural fusion > Arab countries.
Ethnopsychology > Arab countries.
National characteristics, Arab.
Arab countries > Emigration and immigration.
Arabs > Foreign countries.
Physical Description:xiv, 148 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
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.