Liminal
Megan Vaughan: Colonial Psychology, 23 March 2006
The Coloniser and the Colonised
by Albert Memmi, translated by Howard Greenfield.
Earthscan, 197 pp., £12.95, October 2003,1 84407 040 9 Show More
by Albert Memmi, translated by Howard Greenfield.
Earthscan, 197 pp., £12.95, October 2003,
“... Is there a distinct social psychology of colonialism? Albert Memmi certainly thought so when he published The Coloniser and the Colonised in 1957. He was not the only one. Octave Mannoni’s Prospero and Caliban had appeared in 1950, and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks in 1952. And while Memmi had mixed feelings about Fanon, and Fanon had bitterly attacked Mannoni for his theory of colonial dependency, they shared an emphasis on the colonial relation which implied an attention to the mind of the coloniser as well as to the predicament of the colonised ... ”