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• Acknowledgments Introduction by Jonathan Judaken
• Part 1. BIOGRAPHICAL REFLECTIONS
• 1. Sea and SunGrowing Up as a Minority Child
• 2 The Stationary Nomad (Autobiographical snippets)
• 3 The Land Within: Interview with Victor Malka
• 4 Tunisia, A Minor League Country: The State of Affairs
• 5 Tunisian Diaries 1955-1956
• 6 Preface to Portrait of a Jew
• 7 Interview with Albert Memmi by Dov Maimon
• 8 The Fecundity of Exile
• 9 Passport for a Hoped Immortality
• Part 2. THE PILLAR OF SALT (1953)
• 10 The City
• 11 The Blind Alley
• 12 The Sabbath
• 13 Old Clothes
• 14 High School
• 15 The Choice
• 16 The Others
• 17 The War
• 18 The Inventory
• Part 3. AGAR (STRANGERS, 1955)
• Part 4. THE COLONIZER AND THE COLONIZED (1957)
• 19 Preface to the 1965 Edition
• 20 Does the Colonial Exist
• 21 Camus, or the Colonizer of Good Will
• 22 Mythical Portrait of the Colonized
• 23 Conclusion
• Part 5. PORTRAIT OF A JEW (1962)
• 24 Revolution and Zionism: Some Observations on Sartre Regarding his Opinions on the Situation of Jews
• 25 Draft for an Introduction to Portrait of a Jew
• 26 The Problem
• 27 The Difference
• 28 The Myth
• 29 The Shadowy Figure
• 30 Conclusion - The Oppressed
• 31 Little Portrait of the Jew
• Part 6. LIBERATION OF THE JEW (1966)
• 32 Preface
• 33 Does the Jew Exist
• 34 Assimilation
• 35 Self Hatred
• 36 The Encystment
• 37 Sanctuary Values
• 38 Is there a Jewish Culture?
• 39 The Jew and the Revolution
• 40 The Way Out
• 41 Response of Albert Memmi to Richard Marienstras
• 42 Preface to Israeli Edition
• Part 7. DOMINATED MAN (1968)
• 43 Why I wrote Dominated Man
• 44 The Paths of the Revolt
• 45 A Total Revolt
• 46 The Negro and the Jew
• 47 The Impossible Life of Frantz Fanon
• 48 The New Slaves
• 49 Letter to Sally N'Dongo
• 50 A Tyrant's Plea
• Part 8. THE SCORPION, OR THE IMAGINARY CONFESSION (1969)
• 51 Uncle Maklouf-1 (Notes for a Portrait)
• 52 My Travels
• Part 9. JEWS AND ARABS (1974)
• 53 Questions for Colonel Kadhafi
• 54 What is an Arab Jew?
• 55 The Colonized Jew
• 56 Justice and Nation
• 57 The Arab Nation and the Israeli Thorn
• 58 Israel
• Part 10. THE DESERT, OR THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JUBAIR WALI AL-MAMMI (1977)
• 59 What Historians Have to Say
• 60 What Historians Add
• Part 11. DEPENDENCE (1979)
• 61 Introduction
• 62 Fanaticism
• 63 Appendix: A Definition of Dependence
• Part 12. RACISM (1982)
• 64 An Attempt at a Definition
• 65 What is Racism
• 66 Racism and Colonization
• 67 Racism and Anti-Semitism
• 68 Treatment
• Part 13. LITERARY REFLECTIONS
• 69 For a Novel of Meaning (1959)
• 70 Introduction, Anthology of Maghrebi Writers in French (1964)
• 71 Introduction: A Literature of Separation, Anthology of French Writers of the Maghreb (1969)
• 72 Preface, Francophone Writers of the Maghreb: An Anthology (1985)
• 73 What Language to Write In? The Literary Homeland of the Colonized (1996)
• 74 Emergence of a Maghrebi Literature in French: The 1954 Generation
• Part 14. DECOLONIZATION AND THE DECOLONIZED (2004)
• 75 The Decolonized Man (1967)
• 76 Fundamentalisms and Secularism (1989)
• 77 Decolonization and the Decolonized: Postface to the Pocket Edition (2004)
• 78 Decolonization and the Decolonized, selections
• 79 Elias Levy, "An Exclusive Interview with Albert Memmi" (2012)
• 80 Interview by Feriel Berraies Guigny, "Today, heterophobia has become an extension of a biological rejection of everyone's cultural features!" (2008) .
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Born in 1920 on the edge of Tunis's Jewish quarter, the French, Jewish, and Tunisian sociologist, philosopher, and novelist Albert Memmi has been a central figure in colonial and postcolonial studies. Often associated with the anticolonial struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, Memmi's career has spanned fifty years, more than twenty book-length publications, and hundreds of articles that are distilled in this collection. The Albert Memmi Reader presents Memmi's insights on the legacies of the colonial era, critical theories of race, and his distinctive story. Memmi's novels and essays feature not only decolonial struggles but also commentary on race, the psychology of dependence, and what it means to be Jewish. This reader includes selections from his classic works, such as The Pillar of Salt and The Colonizer and the Colonized, as well as previously untranslated pieces that punctuate Memmi's literary life and career, illuminating the full arc of one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. Selections from his later works speak directly to contemporary issues in European, African, and Middle Eastern studies, such as racism, immigration and European identity, and the struggles of postcolonial states, including Israel/Palestine. .
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• Translator's foreword
• Pages from a ship's missing registry
• The book of métissage
• The book of journey
• The book of departure
• A few words from the land of my birth
• Translator's notes

"Cargo Hold of Stars is an ode to the forgotten voyage of a forgotten people. Khal Torabully gives voice to the millions of indentured men and women, mostly from India and China, who were brought to Mauritius between 1849 and 1923. Many were transported overseas to other European colonies. Kept in close quarters in the ship's cargo hold, many died. Most never returned home. With Cargo Hold of Stars, Torabully introduces the concept of 'Coolitude' in a way that echoes Aimé Césaire's term 'Negritude', imbuing the term with dignity and pride, as well as a strong and resilient cultural identity and language. Stating that ordinary language was not equipped to bring to life the diverse voices of indenture, Torabully has developed a 'poetics of Coolitude': a new French which is peppered with Mauritian Creole, wordplay and neologisms--and is always musical. The humour in these linguistic acrobatics serves to underscore the violence in which his poems are steeped. Deftly translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Cargo Hold of Stars is the song of an uprooting, of the destruction and the reconstruction of the indentured labourer's identity. But it also celebrates setting down roots, as it conjures an ideal homeland of fraternity and reconciliation in which bodies, memories, stories and languages mingle--a compelling odyssey that ultimately defines the essence of humankind"--Back cover

• Angelita unearthed
• Our lady of the quarry
• The cart
• The well
• Rambla Triste
• The lookout
• Where are you, dear heart?
• Meat
• No birthdays or baptisms
• Kids who come back
• The dangers of smoking in bed
• Back when we talked to the dead.

"Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can't let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death by a question of morality they fail to answer correctly. Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with resounding tenderness towards those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, this new collection from one of Argentina's most exciting writers finds Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Relations
• Intimacies
• Witnessing
• Destierro
• Reparations
• Apocalypso
• Coda: Sea

• Acknowledgements Introduction
• 1. The SertAo Reconstructed: JoAo GuimarAes Rosa's Grande sertAo: veredas
• 2. Narrative Conservation and Conservationist Narratives: Alejo Carpentier's Gran Sabana
• 3. Juan Rulfo's Pedro PAramo and the Green Revolution: Modern Literary and Agricultural Dilemmas
• 4. Besieged Plots: Nonhuman Agency in Clarice Lispector's A cidade sitiada
• 5. Against Wind and Tide: Fiction, Ecology, and Politics in Mario Vargas Llosa's Amazon Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation and urbanization. From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by JoAo GuimarAes Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the present.
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• Acknowledgements Introduction
• 1. The SertAo Reconstructed: JoAo GuimarAes Rosa's Grande sertAo: veredas
• 2. Narrative Conservation and Conservationist Narratives: Alejo Carpentier's Gran Sabana
• 3. Juan Rulfo's Pedro PAramo and the Green Revolution: Modern Literary and Agricultural Dilemmas
• 4. Besieged Plots: Nonhuman Agency in Clarice Lispector's A cidade sitiada
• 5. Against Wind and Tide: Fiction, Ecology, and Politics in Mario Vargas Llosa's Amazon Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation and urbanization.From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by JoAo GuimarAes Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the present.
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"This comparative literary study re-evaluates the reciprocal relationship between tragic drama and current approaches to guilt and extenuation. Focussing on Racine but ranging widely, it sheds original light on tragic archetypes (Phaedra, Oedipus, Clytemnestra, Medea and others) through the lenses of performance theory and modern attitudes towards blame. Tragic drama and legal systems both aim to evaluate the merits of excuses provided on behalf of perpetrators of catastrophic acts. Edward Forman wittily and provocatively explores modern judicial concepts - diminished responsibility, provocation, trauma, ignorance, scapegoating - through the responses of characters in tragedy. Attention is paid to the way in which classical plays (ancient Greek and seventeenth-century French) have been re-interpreted in performance in the light of modern perceptions of human responsibility and helplessness"-- Provided by publisher.

"Jaguars' Tomb is a novel in three parts. Part one, "Hidden Variables" by María Celina Igarzábal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author of the second part, "Telling from Zero" ("Contar desde zero") of which Evelynne Harrington, author of the third, is a central character. Harrington, finally, is the author of "Uncertainty" ("La incertidumbre") whose protagonist is the dying Igarzábal. Each of the three parts revolves around the octagonal room that is in turn the jaguars' tomb, the central space of the torture center, and the heart of an abandoned house that hides an adulterous affair"-- Provided by publisher.

• Mormons in Paris / Louis Leroy and Alfred Delacour
• Berthelier Meets the Mormons
• Japheth's Twelve Wives / Antony Mars and Maurice Desvallières
• Stephana's Jewel / Arthur Bernède and Albert Dubarry

In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent 'others, ' however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their own culture. Aren't Mormon women, because of their numbers in a household, more liberated than French women who can't divorce? What is polygamy but another name for multiple mistresses? This new critical edition presents translations of four musical comedies staged or published in France in the late 1800s: Mormons in Paris (1874), Berthelier Meets the Mormons (1875), Japheth's Twelve Wives (1890) and Stephana's Jewel (1892). Each is accompanied by a short contextualizing introduction with details about the music, playwrights, and staging. Humorous and largely unknown, these plays use Mormonism to explore and mock changing French mentalities during the Third Republic, lampooning shifting attitudes and evolving laws about marriage, divorce, and gender roles.
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• Poetics in modernity
• Erotic metaphysics
• Magnetic fields
• The writing on desire.

"Octavio Paz: Ontology and Surrealism discusses poet Octavio Paz (1914-1998), one of Mexico´s most controversial intellectuals. Over several decades, Paz has been celebrated for his impact on literature and culture as a poet as well as an essayist, and he is recognized as a great thinker and as a student of German ontology and phenomenology. Roberto Sanchez Benitez analyzes in detail Paz's training within the European philosophical thinking of the twentieth century, as well as in the artistic avant-garde, to illustrate the way in which philosophical, anthropological, linguistic, sociological, literary, and artistic proposals enriched his work and Mexican culture during the post-revolutionary period. Sanchez Benitez posits that Paz moved from a phenomenological ontology to a historicism of the human condition, wherein morality, politics, and the arts all reside in an ideological context where dogmatisms where impose in the face of a lack of internal criticism. This book explores the themes of the poetic act that Paz associated with his ontological and surrealist readings, leading up to when they were transformed by his experience in India and the assimilation of Eastern philosophies, along with going through a set of Western proposals relating to love, eroticism, and art. Scholars of literature, philosophy, Latin American Studies, and history will find this book particularly useful."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction THE DUECENTO Guittone D'Arezzo: Dialogic Conversion Guido Guinizzelli: Dialogic Reorientation Guido Cavalcanti: Dialogic Subjectivity DANTE Dante in Dialogue Ars Legendi, Ars Poetica: The Siren and the Poet Conclusion: Subjectivity, Dialogue, Openness.
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Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante provides a new perspective on the highly networked literary landscape of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy. It demonstrates the fundamental role of dialogue between and within texts in the works of four poets who represent some of the major developments in early Italian literature: Guittone d'Arezzo, Guido Guinizzelli, Guido Cavalcanti, and Dante. Rather than reading the cultural landscape through the lens of Dante's works, significant though they may be, the first part of this study reconstructs the rich network of literary, especially poetic dialogue that was at the heart of medieval writing in Italy. The second part uses this reconstruction to demonstrate Dante's engagement with, and indebtedness to, the dynamics of exchange that characterised the practice of medieval Italian poets. The overall argument-for the centrality of dialogic processes to the emerging Italian literary tradition-is underpinned by a conceptualisation of dialogue in relation to medieval and modern literary theory and philosophy of language. By triangulating between Brunetto Latini's Rettorica, Mikhail Bakhtin's 'dialogism', and as sense of 'performative' speech adapted from J. L. Austin, Poetry in Dialogue shows the openness of its corpus to new dialogues and interpretations, highlighting the instabilities of even the most apparently fixed, monumental texts.
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"In The Politics of Print During the French Wars of Religion, Gregory Haake examines how, in late sixteenth-century France, authors and publishers used the new medium of the printed text to control the terms of public discourse and determine history, or at least their narrative of it. The creativity of the Renaissance ushered in new instability of discourse and a decline of traditional centres of authority. Gregory Haake shows that poets, authors, printers, and polemicists - including historians, such as Simon Goulart; the great poets of the time, such as Pierre de Ronsard or Agrippa d'Aubigné; or anonymous authors of polemical texts - rushed in to take advantage of discursive uncertainty to discredit their enemies and shape the meaning of history as it unfolded"-- Provided by publisher

• "Asmodeus, " from Paris; or, The book of a hundred and one / Jules Janin
• "The gamin of Paris, " from Paris; or, The book of a hundred and one / Gustave d'Outrepont
• "The fashionable woman and the elegant woman in 1833, " from Paris; or, The book of a hundred and one / Eugénie Foa
• The stockbroker's son / Eugène Scribe and Henri Dupin
• "Letter 27, " from Parisian letters by the Vicomte de Launay / Delphine de Girardin
• "A Grisette Party, " from Parisian manners / Paul de Kock
• "The flâneur, " from The French depicted by themselves: a moral encyclopedia of the nineteenth century / Auguste de Lacroix
• "The proper woman, " from The French depicted by themselves: a moral encyclopedia of the nineteenth century / Honoré de Balzac
• Physiology of the grisette / Louis Huart
• Physiology of the flâneur / Louis Huart
• Physiology of the bourgeois / Henry Monnier.

"An English translation of humorous works published in French for a mass audience. Describes the changing society of nineteenth-century Paris, featuring character types such as the flaneur, the grisette, the gamin, and the bourgeois. Includes texts by Paul de Kock, Honoré de Balzac, Delphine de Girardin, Louis Huart, and others"-- Provided by publisher.

• "Asmodée," from Paris, ou le livre des cent-et-un / Jules Janin
• "Le gamin de Paris," from Paris, ou le livre des cent-et-un / Gustave d'Outrepont
• "La femme à la mode et la femme élégante en 1833," from Paris, ou le livre des cent-et-un / Eugénie Foa
• Le fils de l'agent de change / Eugène Scribe et Henri Dupin
• "Lettre XXVII," from Lettres parisiennes du Vicomte de Launay / Delphine de Girardin
• "Un bal de grisettes," from Mœurs parisiennes / Paul de Kock
• "Le flâneur," from Les Français peints par eux-mêmes: Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle / Auguste de Lacroix
• "La femme comme il faut," from Les Français peints par eux-mêmes: Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle / Honoré de Balzac
• Physiologie de la grisette / Louis Huart
• Physiologie du flaneur / Louis Huart
• Physiologie du bourgeois / Henry Monnier.

"A collection of humorous French-language works published for a mass audience. Describes the changing society of nineteenth-century Paris, featuring character types such as the flaneur, the grisette, the gamin, and the bourgeois. Includes texts by Paul de Kock, Honoré de Balzac, Delphine de Girardin, Louis Huart, and others"-- Provided by publisher.

• Grandmother : habit, death and photography. The double work of habit
• Involuntary memory and involuntary forgetting
• The intermittent photograph
• Camera eyes : the productive estrangement of mechanical vision
• The photographer as a stranger : dégonflage
• Albertine breaks the frame. Albertine emerges from a blurry photograph
• Making memories
• Déja vu (Bergson)
• Memory : Bergson vs. Freud (and Walter Benjamin)
• Art and life : improvisation
• The time of the latent image
• Memory is a photographer
• Photographic logics and genres
• Breaking the frame : writing the time of life
• Desire to write
• Odette (and Swann); Social time : photography and money
• Swann's gift : class, money and photography
• The facialization of Odette
• The social education of the face
• Immortal youth
• Money
• Odette and Swann are made for each other
• Social symptoms : desire and money (Simmel and Proust)
• Money, truth, and narrative form
• The two fables of Proust's novel.

"In her new book, Suzanne Guerlac interrogates standard interpretations of Remembrance of Things Past and argues that Proust does not record the dead time of recollection, but the effervescent time of becoming and the real as it was described Felix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson and Georg Simmel. By placing Proust's novel within a web of money and contemporary popular culture like commercial photography, pornography, the regulation of prostitution and the Dreyfus Affair, Guerlac reveals that Proust's motivation was not the recuperation of lost time, but the adventure of living in the present moment on an individual and social level"-- Provided by publisher.

"Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri's Narrative Language examines Camilleri's unique linguistic repertoire provides a systematic analysis of the distribution of Sicilian features in selected historical and mystery (Montalbano) novels, and assesses their function as indices of salient aspects of topics, settings and characters"-- Provided by publisher.