"First published in France as Portrait du décolonisé: arabo-musulman et de quelques autres, copyright 2004 editions Gallimard, Paris." Translated from the French. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
The new citizen -- The great disillusion - A paradoxical poverty - Corruption - Imposters and potentates - Tyrants, zealots, and soldiers - Diversions, excuses, and myths - A convenient conflict - The failure of the intellectuals - Fiction and reality - Cultural lethargy - The clerics' plot - From repression to violence - A nation born too late - Nations without law - A sick society - Going abroad -- The immigrant -- The blessings of exile - Failure twice over - A new refrain - The ghetto - Head scarves and métissage - Humiliation - From humiliation to resentment - The solidarity of the vanquished - Composite identity - Abandoning the myth of return - The immigrant's son - The zombie - From exclusion to delinquency - Questioning integration - Reciprocal dependence - The languors of Europe - Hope for the decolonized? - Toward a new world.
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