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	Memmi.html
		Writes Memmi, "All efforts of the colonialist are directed towards maintaining the social immobility, and racism is the surest weapon for this aim" (74).
		Memmi assigns the term "colonialist" to the colonizer who agrees to be a colonizer.
		Memmi also states that "the manner in which the colonialist wants to see himself plays a considerable role in the emergence of his final portrait" (55).
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Memmi.html (1586 words)

	PlanetPapers - Albert Memmi & The Political Left Within "The Colonizer & The Colonized"
		What Memmi is conveying is that the leftist colonizer is on an equal level in terms of treatment with his fellow citizens, which the colonized are certainly not.
		Memmi also delivers the notion that one can be both a revolutionary and an exploiter, also giving evidence that the leftist has a dual face that they may not necessarily be able to control.
		Memmi supports the leftist, especially compared to the rightist, but he doesn’t stop short at being honest with the idea that the role of the left-wing colonizer collapses.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/5156.php (1110 words)

	Memmi.html
		Memmi's most influential work is a non-fiction piece, The Colonizer and the Colonized (part of which has also been published under the title, Portrait of the Colonizer).
		Memmi's other works include several novels written in French, including The Pillar of Salt, which is largely autobiographical; Strangers, which explores mixed marriages; and a theoretical piece, Portrait of a Jew.
		Memmi continues, "The excess of his vanity, the too magnificent portrait he paints of himself, betray him more than serve him" (58).
	www.emory.edu /ENGLISH/Bahri/Memmi.html (1586 words)

	Nahost - Buchtipp (Tunesien) Albert Memmi: Die Salzsäule
		Memmis Lebensgeschichte, geschrieben mit einer nüchternen Distanz, ist nicht nur ein fesselnder Roman, sondern zugleich auch eindrucksvolles Dokument einer vergangenen Zeit und das autobiographische Bekenntnis eines Menschen, der in den Widersprüchen der Zeit sich selbst sucht.
		Eng verknüpft sind aber auch sein Bruch mit den Traditionen, mit der sozialen Ordnung, mit den überkommenen Vorurteilen.
		Albert Memmi, geboren 1920 in Tunis, Schriftsteller, Soziologe und Literatursoziologe.
	www.nahost.de /content/rezensionen/rez_018_memmi_salzsaeule.shtml (281 words)

	Zeek \| France’s Jewish Prophets: Alain Finkielkraut, Albert Memmi, and the Looming Crisis of Liberalism \| Dr. Michael ...
		Albert Memmi made his name in 1957 when he published Portrait of a Colonized/Portrait of a Colonizer, a book which dissects with extraordinary clarity the reciprocal pathologies of colonialism [see article].
		Memmi's strongest attacks are on the “Arabo-Muslim” world, which he derides as fundamentally “sick,” particularly in light of their indulgence of terrorism and suicide bombings.
		Together, Memmi says, the two myths have sustained Arab passions while diverting them from more constructive pursuits, a problem he links to the “resignation” of intellectuals in the Arab world, who are incapable or unwilling to break with their societies’ dogma and taboos.
	www.zeek.net /605finkiel (1129 words)

	Welcome to the African Review of Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Memmi dissects the moral dilemmas facing the colonizer who refuses with acuity, skilfully steering his discussion round to the difficulties posed for the Left by the nationalism of the colonized.
		Memmi then turns to the "colonizer who accepts", and his analysis here is what would have interested Sartre most, a structural tour de force without intending to be so in which Memmi links the attitudes generating hatred of the colonized closely to the economic prerogatives of the colonizer.
		Lastly, Memmi explores the dull resignation of the colonized, identifying and explaining traits so often conjured up by the colonial apparatus to legitimise their subordination, devices that are in effect functional to the process of depersonalisation unpinning the relationship between colonized and metropolitan society.
	www.africanreviewofbooks.com /Review.asp?offset=30&book_id=111 (1429 words)

	Amazon.com: Pillar of Salt: Books: Albert Memmi
		Alexandre Mordekhai Benillouche, Memmi's young hero and narrator, is a Jewish native of French-colonized Tunisia.
		Memmi's (The Colonizer and the Colonized) long-out-of-print semiautobiographical novel powerfully distinguishes itself through its unblinking examination of the contradictions that thwart even Alexandre's most altruistic ambitions.
		After volunteering to work in a labor camp during WW II, Alexandre discovers that the class and ethnic distinctions haunting him continued within the camp.
	www.amazon.com /Pillar-Salt-Albert-Memmi/dp/0807083275 (591 words)

	RMMLA: Conference Abstract Display
		In his text on the colonizer and the colonized, Albert Memmi presents portraits of the oppressor who exercises dominion, and of the oppressed over whom dominion is exercised.
		Memmi states: "To different degrees every colonizer is privileged, at least comparatively so, ultimately to the detriment of the colonized" (11).
		Memmi asserts: "Just as the colonizer is tempted to accept his part, the colonized is forced to accept being colonized" (89).
	rmmla.wsu.edu /conferences/conf02-scottsdale/getabstract7027.html (449 words)

	Albert Memmi at AllExperts
		Albert Memmi (born December 15, 1921) is a Tunisian-born French writer and essayist.
		He was educated in French primary schools, and continued on to the Carnot high school in Tunis, the University of Algiers where he studied philosophy, and finally the Sorbonne in Paris.
		Albert Memmi found himself at the crossroads of three cultures, and based his work on the difficulty of finding a balance between the East and the West.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/al/albert_memmi.htm (406 words)

	ALBERT MEMMI
		Les romans de Memmi, par leur perpétuel effort d'inventaire et par leur construction syncopée et labyrinthique qui fait alterner sans transition le fait vrai ou historique et le commentaire ou la rêverie, semblent s'organiser autour d'un ensemble de "fiches" que l'écrivain tente de dépoussiérer et de disposer dans l'ordre qu'il a choisi.
		Si l'image de la cave est une image-clef dans l'oeuvre de Memmi [8], c'est qu'elle évoque le lieu retranché où on stocke et laisse mûrir et se décanter les choses, le passé où on les abandonne aussi, pour mieux les retrouver au hasard des rencontres.
		Memmi revendique l'hybridité intellectuelle, cette richesse qui le fait fondre dans l'universel.
	www.limag.refer.org /Textes/Manuref/Memmi.htm (5235 words)

	Decolonization and the Decolonized
		As outspoken and controversial as ever, Memmi initiates a much-needed discussion of the ex-colonized and refuses to idealize those who are too often painted as hapless victims.
		Memmi, who is Jewish, was born and raised in Tunis, and focuses primarily on what he calls the Arab-Muslim condition, while also incorporating comparisons with South America, Asia, Black Africa, and the United States.
		Albert Memmi is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Paris, Nanterre, and the author of Racism.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/M/memmi_decolonized.html (253 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Colonizer and the Colonized: Books: Albert Memmi,Jean-Paul Sartre,Nadine Gordimer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ranking with the works of Marx, Fanon and Che Guevara, Albert Memmi's 1957 analysis of colonial oppression has been banned by governments and police and is considered by scholars, activists and revolutionaries to be one of the most powerful and psychologically penetrating studies of colonial oppression ever written.
		In it, Memmi dissects the minds of both the oppressor and the oppressed to reveal truths about the colonial situation and struggle that are as relevant in our war-torn world as they were back in the 1950s.
		Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer's new critical introduction reflects on Memmi's achievements and failures and takes his analysis into the 21st century by both exposing his flaws and by opening fresh avenues of inquiry for scholars and students, and new directions for activists seeking a more just world order.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Colonizer-Colonized-Albert-Memmi/dp/1844070409 (451 words)

	PSYCH
		This psychology was examined during the 1950s, near the end of the colonial period, by several writers from the French colonial world: Albert Memmi, a Tunisian writer; Franz Fanon, a physician from Martinique; and (Dominique) O. Mannoni, an Italian psychologist working in Madagascar.
		Memmi was a Tunisian Jew, whose ambivalent status gave him perspective both on the colonized and the colonizer -- as a colonial subject of the French, and as a non-Moslem, which placed him in a social position slightly above that of the average colonial subject, with access to some of the privileges of the colonizer.
		Memmi describes this "pyramid of petty tyrants" (17), each of whom responds to social oppression from above by turning around and participating in the oppression of those below.
	www.northern.edu /hastingw/PSYCH.HTM (855 words)

	Racism
		In a remarkable meditation on a subject at the troubled center of American life, Albert Memmi investigates racism as social pathology--a cultural disease that prevails because it allows one segment of society to empower itself at the expense of another.
		For Memmi, the structure of racism has four "moments": the insistence on difference; the negative valuation imposed on those who differ; the generalizing of this negative valuation to an entire group; and the use of generalization to legitimize hostility.
		Albert Memmi is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Paris, Nanterre, and the author of numerous books, including The Colonizer and the Colonized and Decolonization and the Decolonized as well as the novels Pillar of Salt and The Desert.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/m/memmi_racism.html (387 words)

	ICFFS-Diversity & Difference
		Albert Memmi uses writing as tikkun, as a way of trying to change his world, even if he does not use it in a way that will provide restoration, which for him, as we shall see, is always impossible.
		Memmi plays on his own singularity, as the other on whom otherness is always already visited, but, at the same time, he recognizes throughout that everyone is always experiencing another culture.
		Otherness for him is acutely visited, severely felt, and foundational, whereas for some, it may be conceived of in a kind of false consciousness as merely accidental, in the philosophical sense of the word.
	www.fsu.edu /~icffs/abstracts_div/Schehr.html (253 words)

	memmi
		Albert Memmi was born in 1920 (the year the Destour Party was established) in the Jewish ghetto of Tunis, the first son of a saddler-cum-leather worker.
		From the outset, Albert Memmi's objectives in writing were radically different from those of his predecessors.
		Writing was thus for Memmi a form of self-therapy - an exercise in survival (although paradoxically it could be seen as reinforcing his sense of solitude).
	www.rdg.ac.uk /french/memmistatue.htm (13216 words)

	global studies
		Albert Memmi, The Two Answers of the Colonized Memmi writes that colonizers are creatures of want while all who are colonized need change.
		According to Memmi, the first ambition of the colonized is to become equal to the colonizer.
		While this may seem like acceptance of colonization, it is actually their submission and an attempt to assimilate because they are rejecting who they are at the same time.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper.php?nats=MTAxMToyOjE,0,0,0,0&request=68699 (264 words)

	Memmi, Albert - Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MEMMI, Albert (1920-), professor of sociology, novelist and essayist in French, was born in the Jewish ghetto of Tunis, Tunisia.
		For Memmi, the art of writing is a process of self-discovery as well as reconciliation with the past.
		The complexities of cultural division within his fiction also provided Memmi with the impetus for his study on colonialism and decolonization, Portrait du colonisé (1957; The Colonizer and the Colonized, 1965), which focused on the destructive elements of oppression.
	people.africadatabase.org /en/profile/11550.html (724 words)

	Amazon.com: "Albert Memmi": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In his study, The Colonizer and the Colonized,4 Albert Memmi theorizes that people subjected to colonial conditions adapt to them in order to survive.
		A full ten years before Albert Memmi's own The Colonizer and the Colonized (Portrait du colonis), Amrouche dissected the uneasy love-hatred entanglement of the colonial subject.
		Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized (Boston: Beacon, 1967), p.
	amazon.com /phrase/Albert-Memmi (643 words)

	Transition Magazine : Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Forty years ago, Albert Memmi published The Colonizer and the Colonized, a study of the psychology of the colonial experience.
		Memmi, a Tunisian-born Jew, became one of the foremost theorists of colonialism; along with the Martiniquan-born Frantz Fanon, another psychologist and African outsider, Memmi is considered one of Africa's greatest intellectuals.
		Memmi's great theme is the impossibility of assimilation: the contradictory desires of the oppressed to simultaneously escape and become the Other.
	www.transitionmagazine.com /Press_Release/T71_memmi.html (299 words)

	Married Enemies \| TIME
		In Strangers, Tunisian Novelist Albert Memmi writes with relentless can dor of a far grimmer marital crack-up in a far more ferocious setting than is usually found in the bored, semi-Freudian cold war between American husbands and wives.
		The marriage Memmi describes is "mixed." The hero-narrator is a Tunisian Jew studying medicine in Paris.
		Author Memmi confines himself to a careful, patient piling up of telling detail and harsh, spare dialogue that conveys its own message: love, intelligence and good will are not enough when caught in the blind struggle between alien cultures.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,871731,00.html (619 words)

	No Man's Land (The Nation, December 27, 1965)
		This article presents information regarding objectivity and critics of the book "The Colonizer and the Colonized," by Albert Memmi.
		Memmi has illustrated the liberal notions underlining colonization based on his experiences with assimilation in the colonies.
		According to Memmi, this book is neither a protest nor a search for solutions, but is motivated by the urge the understanding of colonized people.
	www.thenation.com /archive/detail/13087015 (140 words)

	Pillar of Salt - Albert Memmi - Product Details - USA :: ttgapers.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Besides providing an enjoyable narrative, Memmi conveys a vivid picture of the impact of French colonialism on Tunisian society in general and on Tunisian Jews in particular.
		It is a study of multiple alienation, at once from traditional Jewish culture, Tunisian Muslim culture, and French culture.
		Memmi's work also sheds light on the little known story of the Holocaust in Axis-occupied Tunisia as well as the growth of zionism among North African Jews.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0807083275-locale-us.html (244 words)

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		From the dialectic of colonizer and colonized to the psychology of racism to the distinction between East and West to the defense of Jewish nationalism, Albert Memmi's intellectual preoccupations have mirrored some of the great cataclysms of the second half of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first.
		Memmi's method of articulating the politics of identity and difference combining fictional representation, the construction of ideal types, and bluntly polemical argument contrasts with the mathematical and positivistic analyses that often count as good social science today.
		This paper will challenge aspects of the evolution of Memmi's political ideas while defending his method of presenting those ideas as provocatively well suited to his subject.
	2003.humanitiesconference.com /ProposalSystem/Presentations/P000078 (181 words)

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		In a remarkable meditation on a subject at the troubled center of American life, Albert Memmi investigates racism as social pathology -- a cultural disease that prevails because it allows one segment of society to empower itself at the expense of another.
		Memmi shows how it is not racism's content -- which can change at will -- but its form that gives it such power and tenacity.
	www.buch.de /buch/06735/078_racism.html (144 words)

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		Because it is a novel, it may seem difficult to find an underlying theme or argument, but that it just what we will look try to do.
		Think about what the hidden topic of Memmi’s novel is, and what he is arguing through his novel.
		You do not need to have your answers to this question set, but you should be able to talk about your preliminary ideas in class.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/pjwoods/memmi.html (222 words)

	Department of Foreign Languages
		Maghreb Divers : Langue française, langues parlées, littératures et représentations des Maghrébins, à partir d'Albert Memmi et de Kateb Yacine.
		Albert Camus: entre la mère et l’injustice French play in four tableaux about the life and works of Albert Camus (based on the short story L’hôte from Exile And The Kingdom) in Albert Camus et les écritures algériennes: quelles traces?
		Albert Camus: Exils d’Alger second play about Albert Camus
	www.uwsp.edu /forlang/atoumi/Publications.htm (1042 words)

	MavicaNET - Memmi, Albert (1920- ) (Site not responding. Last check: )
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		Born in Tunisia, a Jew in a predominately Muslim colony, Memmi is qualified to write about both the colonizer and the colonized; he says, "I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one"
		Informations biographiques et bibliographiques sur l'écrivain tunisien Albert Memmi.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/isl/39514.html (108 words)

	The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0807003018
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