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this was a shock for him because he took himself as French but people didn’t take him as French
it is like belonging and not belonging (you are not who you think you are)
book: The Wretched of the Earth
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about the French war in Algeria and its torture
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the French tortured the Algerians because they wanted to get useful information quickly
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deals with Algerian victims who were tortured and French victims who tortured the Algerians
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effect: victims suffered both physically and mentally (both sides were tortured)
book: Black Skin, White Masks
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black Africans were drafted into French army who fought in colonial army
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colonial empires also rely on native population
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it created a conflict of identity: black people behaving like white French people
4. ALBERT MEMMI
French writer of Tunisian-Jewish origin
he wrote several books, but he is famous for his essay where he tries to understand a stereotype
essay: The Colonizer and the Colonized
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analysis of stereotypes
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the colonizer – brave, hard-working, energetic
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the colonized (slaves) – lazy, don’t want to work, try to find tricks to deceive
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why should the colonized should be hard-working when the result doesn’t go to him
5. GAYATRI SPIVAK ♀
Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic
essay: Can the Subaltern Speak?
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talks about women but also all people who are in a position of subordination
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subaltern = someone who doesn’t have power
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the oppression of subaltern is so powerful that the subaltern cannot tell his own story and is spoken for
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Spivak makes a comparison with Indian women who committed Sati
SATI
tradition in which wives commit suicide (burnt on pyre) after the death of their husband
it is considered respectable to be burnt, for women it is honourable
the woman is highly respected because she doesn’t want to survive their husbands