Saturday 27 August 2011
Colonialism and Neocolonialism
Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism is a
classic critique of France's policies in Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s
and inspired much subsequent writing on colonialism, post-colonialism,
politics, and literature. It includes Sartre's celebrated preface to
Fanon's classic Wretched of the Earth. Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism
had a profound impact on French intellectual life, inspiring many other
influential French thinkers and critics of colonialism such as
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Frantz Fanon, Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques
Derrida.