Colonialism and the Ethics of Difference: From Sartre to Said

Description

This volume aims to show how Sartre influenced many of the key post-colonial thinkers and writers. Sartre's writings on the construction of "otherness" and his work in "Antisemite and Jew", for example, had a direct impact on both Fanon and Cesaire in their work on the culture of colonialism. Sartre's preface to Fanon's "Wretched of the Earth" marked the fissuring of one of the grand narratives of Western humanism, while his introduction to Memmi's "The Colonizer and the Colonised" characterized colonialism as a profoundly racist imposition which could only be fully understood as part of an ongoing imperialist project whereby colonised peoples were systematically reduced to the status of object, fit only to serve the higher interests of the colonial powers.

Azzedine Haddour is Senior Lecturer in French and Cultural Studies at Staffordshire University.