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Routledge
Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre’s writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own country’s conduct in Algeria, and by extension, the West’s conduct in the Third World in general. Whether... Read more
Preface by Robert J. C. Young; Introduction: Remembering Sartre by Azzedine Haddour; From One China to Another; Colonialism is a System; Albert Memmi’s The Colonizer and the Colonized; You are Wonderful; We Are All Murderers; A Victory; The Pretender; The Constitution of Contempt; The Frogs Who Demand a King; The Analysis of the Referendum; The Sleepwalkers; The Wretched of the Earth; The Political Thought of Patrice Lumumba
Biography
Jean-Paul Sartre
'Uncalled for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.' - Jean-Paul Sartre
