AFRS BC 2004x Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Albert Memmi, Jean-Paul Sartre, French Protectorate Of Tunisia

• School: Barnard College
• Department: Africana Studies
• Course: AFRS BC 2004x
• Professor: Abosede George

Document Summary

Lecture about the the bloody wars between france its african colonies during the era of decolonization. France and algeria fought for 8 years. Colonialism is riddled with contradictions, internally incoherent. Binary: colonizer is completely opposite of the colonized. I. e. : if the colonizer is hard working, the colonized is lazy. You know who you are by what you are not - professor george. Serves to justify the imposition of the colonial and repressive governments. Born in 1920 in colonial tunisia, albert memmi is french-language novelist, focusing on sociological studies on 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 school there. He thus found himself, early in his life, in the anomalous position of a jew among muslims, an arab among europeans, and a member of the working class among the bourgeoisie.