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



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Autore: Memmi Albert Visualizza persona
Titolo: Decolonization and the decolonized / / Albert Memmi ; translated by Robert Bononno Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2006]
©2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (164 p.)
Disciplina: 325/.309174927
Soggetto topico: Postcolonialism - Arab countries
Cultural fusion - Arab countries
Ethnopsychology - Arab countries
National characteristics, Arab
Arabs - Foreign countries
Soggetto geografico: Arab countries Emigration and immigration
Altri autori: BononnoRobert  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: In this time of global instability and widespread violence, Albert 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
Titolo autorizzato: Decolonization and the decolonized  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4529-4376-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819124403321
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