Colonialism and Neocolonialism

by Jean-Paul Sartre, Azzedine Haddour (Translator), Steve Brewer (Translator), Terry McWilliams (Translator)

Overview

Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism is a classic critique of France's policies in Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s and inspired much subsequent writing on colonialism, post-colonialism, politics, and literature. It includes Sartre's celebrated preface to Fanon's classic Wretched of the Earth. Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism had a profound impact on French intellectual life, inspiring many other influential French thinkers and critics of colonialism such as Jean-Francois Lyotard, Frantz Fanon, Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Derrida.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415191456
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/22/2001
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jean-Paul Sartre is the author of several Routledge books.

Table of Contents

Preface by Robert Young; Introduction: Remembering Sartre; From One China to the Other; Colonialism is a System; Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized; You Are Wonderful; We Are All Murderers; A Victory; The Pretender; The Constitution of Contempt; The Frogs Who Demand a King; The Analysis of the Referendum; The Sleepwalkers; The Wretched of the Earth; The Political Thought of Patrice Lumumba;

Editorial Reviews

'A living testimony to Sartre as a significant anti-colonial figure, with not only an analytic brain but ethical precepts worthy of emulation. It provides a detailed and massively well-informed insight into French Colonial policies in Algeria.' - Human Nature Review

'Uncalled for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.' - Jean-Paul Sartre

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