About this title: This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781583670255ISBN:1583670254
Description: Acceptable. Cover shows some edge wear and creasing. Used" stickers or stamps are present. One page has a stain, does not affect content. Some highlighting and/or underlining is present. Good reading copy. read more
Description: Fair. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Writing: SOME ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: New York University Press Pub Date: 11/1/2000 Binding: Paperback Pages: 102. read more
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Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Monthly Review Press, New York
Date Published: 1972
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. 0-85345-226-6. 79 pp. Edgewear, corners rubbed. A selection of political essays on the barbarism of the colonizer, and the unhappiness of the colonized. Includes an interview with Cesaire.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781583670255ISBN:1583670254
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MONTHLY REVIEW PR
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781583670255ISBN:1583670254
Description: New. "Csaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent role. " "--Library Journal" This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the gen... read more
"Pan-Africanist and founder of France's inter-war Negritude movement, Aime Cesaire ranks up there with Frantz Fanon in kickass primary source material. 'Discourse on Colonialism', first published in 1955, posits that 'Hitlerism' (as Cesaire calls it) was the inevitable result of and punishment for European colonialism, as they stemmed from the same worldview -- that there is a hierarchy of races in the world, and the higher races must rule the lower. Cesaire is bitingly sarcastic and bitter, calling out the injustices of colonialism and pointing out the parallels between the two."
"Aimé Césaire's "Discourse on Colonialism" is a poignant exploration of the brutality, indifference, and dehumanizing effect of colonization on both colonizer and colonized. Colonization rips the soul out of both, driving the colonizers to violence and race hatred, and the colonized towards psychic and soulful death. However, "the mechanization of man, the gigantic rape of everything intimate" does not give the white man a second thought, not until this monstrous dehumanizing colonial impulse diffuses throughout Europe and colonizes the white man-as fascism. This is what Césaire sees as the end of the road of capitalism and the Western mentality of rationality, hierarchy and domination: an ultimate devastation of bodies, souls, and land.
A brilliant, evocative, poetic essay by a surrealist artist/writer whose work should be read as foundational for anyone with an interest in post-colonial thought."
"This book is a great short read of anti-colonialism. He was one of Frantz Fanon's teachers and you can see his influence on his work. The only things that were difficult about this book are the references to some French scholars, scientists and business people that I am not familiar with."
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