Discourse on Colonialism is an essay by Aimé Césaire, a poet and politician from Martinique who helped found the négritude movement in Francophone. Half a century later Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism has lost nothing of its dynamism and incantory power. Robin Kelley’s introduction is a valuable tool. Aime Cesaire – Discourse on Colonialism By Baba G. Jallow Cesaire begins his Discourse on Colonialism with a severe indictment of Western civilization.
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The colonized are not human beings worthy of colonixlism rights or human respect, but things merely to be used, driven around, beaten and, when the need arises, killed in the name of a law and order rooted in injustice and barbarism. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
Discoutse is only concerned with the rights of man in relation to the White man, not Coolies and Niggers. He does all this and more in less than seventy pages.
Colonizers treat others like they are less human and needs to be tamed while colonized starts suffering from inferiority complex and gets alienated with his own identity. His only consolation, he writes, “is colonilaism periods of colonization pass, that nations sleep only for a time, and that peoples remain” p.
Discourse on Colonialism
In inflicting horrors on the colonized peoples, Europe colonialis, engaged in a process of self-destruction. I read the English version and it’s available in PDF online.
But reading texts like this, 70 years old yet still a dizzying gut punch in only 78 pages!
The statements of people like M. Here Aime Cesaire does not write like a theorist or an academician.
Aime Cesaire – Discourse on Colonialism | Baba Jallow –
That state is just imperialism with a new coat of paint. He argues convincingly that Naziism — which had just been defeated in Europe — was not, as so many aije to portray it, a unique and inexplicable phenomenon, but simply the use against Europeans of the same techniques that had long been used by Europeans against the rest of the world; that Hitler simply particularized the Master Race from whites in general to Germans, and acted the way whites had always acted in the third world.
By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. This is a whole different topic altogether, but it’s also one of the reasons why I’ve been wanting to read more non-fiction, to learn in more accurate and pinned down terms. Cesaire combines poetry cilonialism history with a fierce and often humorous approach, the result is an almost mystical denunciation of colonialism.
Had Hitler venture Cesaire argues that Nazism is not unique.
Mannoni that colonialism was a divinely ordained mission colonalism the West, and that all the Madagascan craved was to be able to depend on somebody else: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Feb 19, Ioana rated it it was amazing Shelves: Cesaire claims that the racism of Europe does not bother him. In a series of very interesting quotations from “liberal” colonialists, he shows the identity of their colonial ideology with the Nazi ideology, and exposes the ideas that they used to justify colonialism and racism.
Oct 13, Stan rated it it was amazing Shelves: The scandal, he writes, is that Hitler would have the audacity to subject white people to the same brutality.
But why does Hitler get all the attention? But of course it’s rather obvious why such texts won’t be included.
Great piece of rhetoric pointing out the fascist rot of European so-called civilisation. I make a systematic defense of the societies destroyed by imperialism. Morrison echoes these effects in Beloved, the white, when he looks at the slave as an animal- an ape, himself becomes an ape. Retrieved from ” https: He regularly quotes European views on colonialism only to subsequently debunk them thoroughly, although not with what would be referred to as scientific proof, as he clearly has no interest or need in doing that.
Yet another colonialist, Saint-Arnaud, gallantly declares: This book dicsourse literally the first book I’ve ever read where I didn’t skip the introduction or notes cooonialism by Robin D. How is it that it hasn’t been pressed into my hands by dozens of friends? As a member of the Martinican Communist Party, he does have some illusions yet in Stalinism, which he later broke with; as the introductory essay by Robin D.
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
University of Miami, Why did he cloonialism the poster boy for evil? I think the writer is taking the scope to defend the African culture that long has been a source of fun and envy. This diseased sense of responsibility heard in all the Western leaders voices towards the dkscourse is nothing but, to repeat, diseased.
Log In Sign Up. Retrieved 23 September Still, one can dream. The book moves from condemnation of wars and injustice, to attacks on now-obscure colonial theorists and ‘racialists’.