Discourse on Colonialism

Discourse on Colonialism

Author: Aime Cesaire
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 9781583670255
Weight: 0.3 kg
Page: 96
Year: 2001
Price: RM75

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 Rights, Black Power, and anti-war movements and has sold more than 75,000 copies to date.

Aimé Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing the
contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of progress and civilization upon encountering the savage, uncultured, or
primitive. Here, Césaire reaffirms African values, identity, and culture, and their relevance, reminding us that the relationship
between consciousness and reality is extremely complex. It is equally necessary to decolonize our minds, and our inner life, at the same time that we decolonize society. An interview with Césaire by the poet René Depestre is also included.