Memmi A. The Colonizer and the Colonized

Introductions by Jean-Paul Sartre and Nadine Gordimer. — London: Earthscan Publications, 2003. — 200 p. — ISBN: 1-84407-040-9; l-84407-060-3.The Colonizer and the Colonized (French: Portrait du colonisé, précédé par Portrait du colonisateur) is a well-known nonfiction book of Albert Memmi, published in French in 1957 and in English at first in 1965. This work explores and describes the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike. Dissecting the minds of both the oppressor and the oppressed, Memmi reveals truths about the colonial situation and struggle that are as relevant today as they were five decades ago. When it was published in 1957, many national liberation movements were active. Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the preface. The work is often read in conjunction with Frantz Fanon's Les damnés de la Terre (The Wretched of the Earth) and Peau noire, masques blancs (Black Skin, White Masks) and Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism.Preface (1965).
Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre.
New introduction by Nadine Gordimer.
Portrait of the Colonizer.
Does the colonial exist?
The colonizer who refuses.
The colonizer who accepts.
Portrait of the Colonized.
Mythical portrait of the colonized.
Situations of the colonized.
The two answers of the colonized.