Colonialism and Neocolonialism

by Sartre,Jean-Paul

• ISBN13: 9780415191456
• ISBN10: 0415191459
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the first time Sartre's classic work on colonialism has been made available in English. First published in French in 1964, it 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 had an important impact on the conduct of the Algerian war itself, and the break up of the French colonial empire cannot be understood without reference to this key text.Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism is famous also for its controversial call for the use of violence in achieving political ends. 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi
Preface	vii
Robert J. C. Young
Introduction: Remembering Sartre	1	(16)
Azzedine Haddour
From One China to Another	17	(13)
Colonialism is a System	30	(18)
Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized	48	(6)
You Are Wonderful	54	(8)
We Are All Murderers	62	(3)
A Victory	65	(13)
The Pretender	78	(10)
The Constitution of Contempt	88	(8)
The Frogs Who Demand a King	96	(24)
The Analysis of the Referendum	120	(11)
The Sleepwalkers	131	(5)
The Wretched of the Earth	136	(20)
The Political Thought of Patrice Lumumba	156