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UNINA9910465024803321 |
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Memmi Albert |
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Decolonization and the decolonized / / Albert Memmi ; translated by Robert Bononno |
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Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2006] |
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©2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (164 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Postcolonialism - Arab countries |
Cultural fusion - Arab countries |
Ethnopsychology - Arab countries |
National characteristics, Arab |
Arabs - Foreign countries |
Electronic books. |
Arab countries Emigration and immigration |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 VANQUISHEDCORPORATE 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; Afterword |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this time of global instability and widespread violence, Albert |
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Memmi-author of the highly influential and groundbreaking work The Colonizer and the Colonized-turns his attention to the present-day situation of formerly colonized peoples. In Decolonization and the Decolonized, Memmi expands his intellectual engagement with the subject and examines the manifold causes of the failure of decolonization efforts throughout the world.As outspoken and controversial as ever, Memmi initiates a much-needed discussion of the ex-colonized and refuses to idealize those who are too often painted as haple |
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