In Defence of Barbarism - Non-Whites Against the Empire

A provocative, beautiful and defiant essay highlighting the pitfalls of integration in France by a talented young writer with North African roots

List of contents

Acknowledgements

1. A Certain Barbarism
2. Black Man Kills White Woman
3. The Impossible Community of Tears
4. The Life and Death of Marcelin Deschamps
5. Ounga Ounga
6. Fucked for Life
7. The Path of Blame

Notes
Index

About the author

The journalist Louisa Yousfi grew up in south-eastern France in the 1990s. She took a literature course at a crammer in Lille and then studied philosophy in Nice, ultimately enrolling in journalism school in Bordeaux. She was a conscientious student, following the advice of her working-class parents, who had emigrated from Algeria to France, to 'focus on [her] studies first and worry about politics later'. This political engagement duly materialised when she joined the Parti des Indigènes de la République, an anti-racist and decolonial movement whose ideas had a decisive influence on her first published work, Rester barbare. She is currently working on her first novel.

Summary

A provocative, beautiful and defiant essay highlighting the pitfalls of integration in France by a talented young writer with North African roots

Product details

• Authors: Louisa Yousfi
• Assisted by: Andy Bliss (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2025
• EAN: 9781804294420
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-442-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; France, Rap and Hip Hop, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Memoirs, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs