Albert Memmi

The Pillar of Salt

Autobiographical novel about a North African Jew caught between cultures

About the author

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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