Albert Memmi - Does the Colonial Exist? (1957)

Part 1, Section 1 of The The Colonizer and the Colonized, trans. Howard Greenfeld. Originally published as Portrait du colonisé, précédé par Portrait du colonisateur (1957).

[@OsirusHandle]

seems like this dialogue is omnipresent today, perhaps new then but now not so interesting imo

[@dethkon]

First (yet again) 😊

[@oskar5724]

Between you and me, this was my first time reading Memmi and it was a little...underwhelming. But it was written in the 50s so.

[@dethkon]

@@oskar5724 They can’t all be bangers. I still admire the effort, disembodied voice in my head!