Memmi, Albert,

Decolonization and the decolonized / Albert Memmi ; translated by Robert Bononno. - xiv, 148 pages ; 22 cm

"First published in France as Portrait du décolonisé: arabo-musulman et de quelques autres, copyright 2004 editions Gallimard, Paris.".

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 metissage - 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.

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Postcolonialism--Arab countries
Cultural fusion--Arab countries
Ethnopsychology--Arab countries
National characteristics, Arab
Arabs--Foreign countries


Arab countries--Emigration and immigration

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