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Decolonization and the Decolonized by Albert Memmi, Robert Bonnono

By Albert Memmi, Robert Bonnono

During this time of world instability and frequent violence, Albert Memmi—author of the hugely influential and groundbreaking paintings The Colonizer and the Colonized—turns his realization to the present-day scenario of previously colonized peoples. In Decolonization and the Decolonized, Memmi expands his highbrow engagement with the topic and examines the manifold motives of the failure of decolonization efforts in the course of the world.As outspoken and arguable as ever, Memmi initiates a much-needed dialogue of the ex-colonized and refuses to idealize those people who are too frequently painted as hapless sufferers. He exhibits how, in gentle of a appreciably replaced international, it might be problematic—and even irresponsible—to proceed to installation strategies that have been precious and legitimate in the course of the interval of anticolonial struggle.Decolonization and the Decolonized contributes to the most up-tp-date debates on Islamophobia in France, the “new” anti-Semitism, and the unrelenting poverty gripping the African continent. Memmi, who's Jewish, was once born and raised in Tunis, and focuses totally on what he calls the Arab-Muslim situation, whereas additionally incorporating comparisons with South the USA, Asia, Black Africa, and the us. In Decolonization and the Decolonized, Memmi has written that infrequent book—a manifesto proficient via mind and lively by way of passion—that will propel public research of the main pressing international concerns to a brand new level.Albert Memmi is professor emeritus of sociology on the college of Paris, Nanterre, and the writer of Racism (Minnesota, 1997).Robert Bononno, a instructor and translator, lives in manhattan urban.

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The language of the press and the media? Or that of the Koran, an atemporal decree, which cannot keep pace with a language in constant evolution, one that follows its own path through time, the twists and turns of daily life, to the point that it becomes nearly unrecognizable? How many contemporary French speakers can read Rabelais or Montaigne without difficulty? While any prognostication would be arbitrary, it is likely, in spite of the resistance of traditionalists (who are even opposed to vowelization because Koranic Arabic does not use it), that the language of the Koran will, notwithstanding the efforts toward scholarly unification, one day become as uncommon as Latin.

If danger can paralyze each of them individually, why have they not come together to offer some form of collective denunciation? For some time now, the acceleration of history and its increasingly urgent challenges, the now overt Islamist demands, the violence, the reaction of the West, the war against the Taliban and the ambiguities of the Iraq war, the continued rigidity of tyranny, the stagnation, if not the regression, of social behaviors, possibly also some embarrassment in the face of the questioning glances of their European counterparts, seem to have troubled some of these intellectuals sufficiently to cause them to venture outside their reservation.

As if, by denying its existence, it could magically be made to disappear. This effort was facilitated by the fact that the Jews served as an excellent scapegoat for the problems of others. Israel’s existence was far too convenient. “Try to understand what I’m saying,” confided an Arab student on the radio, making a kind of desperate avowal. “I have been raised since birth in this atmosphere, where conflict with the Zionists was fundamental. Its resolution must occur before that of any other conflict; because it is the source of all our sorrows.

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