Research Catalog

Title

The Albert Memmi reader / edited by Jonathan Judakan and Michale Lejman.

Author

Memmi, Albert

Publication

Lincoln : University of Lincoln Nebraska, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Judaken, Jonathan, 1968-
• Lejman, Michael

Description

xliv, 339 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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, allowing readers to appreciate the full arc of one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century"--

Series Statement

France overseas: studies in empire and decolonization

Subject

• Memmi, Albert
• Essays

Genre/Form

• Essays.
• Novels.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-331) and index.

Contents

Introduction by Jonathan Judaken -- 1. Biographical Reflections -- Sea and Sun (1967) -- Growing Up as a Minority Child -- The Stationary Nomad (2000) -- The Land Within: Interview by Victor Malka (1976) -- Tunisia, a Minor-League Country: The State of Affairs (1955-56) -- Tunisian Diaries, 1955-56 -- Preface to Portrait of a Jew (1971) -- Interview with Albert Memmi by Dov Maimon (2007) -- The Fecundity of Exile (2003) -- Passport for a Hoped Immortality (2007) -- 2. The Pillar of Salt (1953) -- The City -- The Blind Alley -- The Sabbath -- Old Clothes -- High School -- The Choice -- The Others -- The War -- The Inventory -- 3. Strangers (1955) -- 4. The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957) -- Preface to the 1965 Edition -- Does the Colonial Exist? -- Camus, or the Colonizer of Good Will (La Nef) (1957) -- Mythical Portrait of the Colonized -- Conclusion -- 5. Portrait of a Jew (1962) -- Revolution and Zionism (1947) -- Why I Wrote Portrait of a Jew -- The Problem -- The Difference -- The Myth -- The Shadowy Figure -- Conclusion-The Oppressed -- "Little Portrait of a Jew" (1967) -- 6. The Liberation of the Jew (1966) -- Preface -- Does the Jew Exist? -- Assimilation -- Self-Hatred -- The Encystment -- Sanctuary Values -- Is There a Jewish Culture? -- The Jew and the Revolution -- The Way Out -- Response of Albert Memmi to Richard Marienstras (1966) -- Preface to the Israeli Edition (1976) -- 7. Dominated Man (1968) -- Why I Wrote Dominated Man (1969) -- The Paths of the Revolt -- A Total Revolt -- The Negro and the Jew (1968) -- The Impossible Life of Frantz Fanon (1971) -- The New Slaves -- A Tyrant's Plea -- Letter to Sally N'Dongo (1970) -- 8. The Scorpion, or The Imaginary Confession (1969) -- Uncle Makhlouf-1 (Notes for a Portrait) -- My Travels -- 9. Jews and Arabs (1974) -- Questions for Colonel Kadhafi -- What Is an Arab Jew? -- The Colonized Jew -- Justice and Nation -- The Arab Nation and the Israeli Thorn -- Israel -- 10. The Desert, or The Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali Al-Mammi (1977) -- What Historians Have to Say -- What Historians Add -- 11. Dependence (1979) -- Introduction -- Fanaticism -- Appendix: A Definition of Dependence -- 12. Racism (1982) -- An Attempt at a Definition (1964) -- What Is Racism? (1972) -- Racism and Colonization -- Racism and Anti-Semitism -- Treatment -- 13. Literary Reflections -- For a Novel of Meaning (1959) -- Introduction to Anthology of Maghrebi Writers in French (1964) -- A Literature of Separation: Introduction to Anthology of French Writers of the Maghreb (1969) -- Preface to Francophone Writers of the Maghreb: An Anthology (1985) -- What Language to Write In?: The Literary Homeland of the Colonized (1996) -- Emergence of a Maghrebi Literature in French: The 1954 Generation (2001) -- 14. Decolonization and the Decolonized (2004) -- The Decolonized Man (1967) -- Fundamentalisms and Secularism (1989) -- Decolonization and the Decolonized Postface to the Pocket Edition (2004) -- Decolonization and the Decolonized (selections) -- Elias Levy: an exclusive interview with Albert Memmi (2012) -- Interview with Feriel Berraies Guigny (2008).

Call Number

JFE 21-1902

ISBN

• 9781496203236
• 1496203232

LCCN

2020032203

OCLC

1183398353

Author

Memmi, Albert, author.

Title

The Albert Memmi reader / edited by Jonathan Judakan and Michale Lejman.

Publisher

Lincoln : University of Lincoln Nebraska, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

France overseas: studies in empire and decolonization

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-331) and index.

Added Author

Judaken, Jonathan, 1968- editor.

Lejman, Michael, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1902