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Albert Memmi
Originally published in 1955, The Pillar of Salt thesemi-autobiographical novel about a young boy growing up in French colonized Tunisia. To gain access to privileged French society, he must reject…
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In this classic study of European colonialism, Albert Memmi examines the psychological effects of colonial ideology and system on both the coloniser and those colonised.
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This anthology presents Albert Memmi’s insights on the legacies of the colonial era, critical theories of race, and his own story as a French writer of Tunisian and Jewish descent…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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By turns historical, sociological and autobiographical, this book investigates racism as social pathology - a cultural disease that prevails because it allows one segment of society to empower itself at…
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Lia Nicole Brozgal
The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioning the prevailing body of criticism, which continues this interpretation of most fiction produced by…
Women as seen through the eyes of men! Set in a Paris restaurant, a reunion of old school friends provides a vehicle for the telling of after-dinner anecdotes on the…
First published a Le Daesert, ou la Vie et les Aventures de Jubair Ouali El-Mammi, Paris, Editions Gallimard, 1977, 1989. –Title page verso.
Decolonization and the Decolonized contributes to the most current debates on Islamophobia in France, the new anti-Semitism, and the unrelenting poverty gripping the African continent. Memmi, who is Jewish, was…
Translation of: Portrait du colonisae, praecaedae du portrait du colonisateur.
