Decolonization and the decolonized /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Memmi, Albert
Other Authors:	Bononno, Robert
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2006]
Subjects:	Postcolonialism > Arab countries. Cultural fusion > Arab countries. Ethnopsychology > Arab countries. National characteristics, Arab. Arab countries > Emigration and immigration. Arabs > Foreign countries.

Table of Contents:

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 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.