The Impossible Logic of Assimilation

In this essay I argue that Memmi’s analysis in The Colonizer and the Colonized transcends the colonial situation of the 1950s. The remorseless logic exposed by Memmi, whereby the colonizer and the colonized are locked together in mutual dependence within a polarized society, applies whenever a domin...

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Main Author: Robert Bernasconi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2011-12-01
Series:Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
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Online Access:http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/490