Albert Memmi in the Era of Decolonization

Abstract

This essay considers the reception of Albert Memmi's Decolonization and the Decolonized. Memmi himself observed that it is much harder to be a writer about postcolonialism than colonialism. Why would this be true? What can we learn about the difficutlies of postcolonial philosophizing and the politics of decolonization through this publication of Memmi's?

Keywords

• memmi, decolonization, immigrant
• immigration
• politics