INTS 407 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: John Dunmore Lang, Pied-Noir, Depersonalization

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: International Studies
• Course: INTS 407
• Professor: Ruth Larson

Document Summary

For memmi, the leftist colonizer in the colony is an impossible historical situation (p. 39) What: he is incapable of assimilating to the colonized. He sees himself continuing to be a european: he does not accept that the revolution can result in the overthrow of his situation and himself (p. 40, compared to the colonizers and the colonized, the leftist colonizer is. Politically ineffective he refuses to become a part of his group of fellow citizens. At the same time it is impossible for him to identify his future with that of the colonized. Politically, who is he? (p. 40: as a member of the colonizers, his support of the colonized in the name of justice is theoretical : their interests are not his own and are often incompatible with his interests. He seeks to legitimize colonization (a defender and an apologist for colonization) The colonizer who refuses lives in ambiguity.