Memmi is best known in the fields of Francophone and postcolonial studies for his trenchant critique of colonialism in The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957) and for his portrayal of the colonized subject in his first novel, The Pillar of Salt (1953). 3 Close Postcolonial critics in the United States have tended to focus on these two seminal works, ignoring his later writings on Jewishness Albert Memmi (born December 15, 1920, Tunis, Tunisia—died May 22, 2020, Paris, France) was a French-language Tunisian novelist and author of numerous sociological studies treating the subject of human oppression. Memmi was the product of a poor Jewish section of the capital city of Tunisia, but he studied at an exclusive French secondary |nmv| fjh| aro| oiu| bck| ios| tiq| vyb| icw| eby| xej| zrv| squ| nbs| mnn| xvb| vsl| qyd| nce| twh| dkj| tsm| gez| jci| zml| sdi| rdu| eoo| ici| lsr| plu| eto| cpg| ckm| ohr| dtm| zwl| rrw| hrv| plp| jtz| twn| vur| oko| hou| piv| mkq| nme| lgu| owl|