Albert Memmi

Dominated Man

Study of how domination shapes identity, consciousness, and human relationships

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Albert Memmi
Albert Memmi

Tunisian-French writer whose The Colonizer and the Colonized is one of the seminal texts of postcolonial theory, analyzing the psychological damage inflicted on both parties in the colonial relationship. Portrait of a Jew examined the condition of Jewish identity in a hostile world. He influenced Fanon and Said.

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