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In 1931, Simone Weil read an article by Louis Roubaud in the Petit Parisien that exposed the Yen Bay massacre in Indochina. That article opened Weil's eyes, and from then until her death in exile in 1943, she cared most deeply about the French colonial situation. Weil refused to accept the contradiction between the image of France as champion of the rights of man and the reality of France's exploitation and oppression of the peoples in its territories. Weil wrote thirteen articles or letters about the situation, writings originally published in French journals or in French collections of her work. J. P. Little's fluid and clear translations finally introduce to English-speaking scholars and students this important element of Weil's political consciousness.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 3 Colonization
Chapter 4 Letter to the Indochinese
Chapter 5 Morocco, or A Lesson in Theft
Chapter 6 A Little History Concerning Morocco
Chapter 7 Blood is Flowing in Tunisia
Chapter 8 Who Is Guilty of Anti-French Plots?
Chapter 9 "These Throbbing Limbs of the Fatherland..."
Chapter 10 Draft: A Protest
Chapter 11 Reflections on Bouché's Lecture
Chapter 12 Fragment: About the Colonial Regime
Chapter 13 New Facts about the Colonial Problem in the French Empire
Chapter 14 Fragment: After Munich
Chapter 15 Letter to Jean Giraudoux
Chapter 16 Letter to Dermenghem
Chapter 17 About the Problems in the French Empire
Chapter 18 Treatment of Negro War-Prisoners from the French Army
Chapter 19 The Colonial Question and the Destiny of the French People
Chapter 20 [Extracts from L'Enracinement]
Part 21 Appendix A:Louis Roubaud. Viet Nam: the Indochinese tragedy
Chapter 22 Goodnight N'Guyen!
Chapter 23 Yen Bay Vespers
Chapter 24 Fifteen hundred silent men
Chapter 25 On the sky road
Chapter 26 Wampoa school
Chapter 27 "Limpid River"
Chapter 28 The "Great Teacher"
Chapter 29 "Right and Virtue"
Chapter 30 Viet-Nam! Viet-Nam! Viet-Nam! (Cablegram of the execution)
Chapter 31 Min Chen... The life of the people
Chapter 32 More on the life of the people
Chapter 33 Indirect taxes, salt tax, alcohol, opium
Part 34 AppendixB:Albert Londres. Land of Ebony
Chapter 35 Loggers
Chapter 36 The drama of the Congo-Océan
Chapter 37 A few reflections after the journey
Part 38 Appendix C:Felicien Challaye. Memories of colonization
Chapter 39 In French Indochina: first contact
Chapter 40 In the French Congo
Chapter 41 In the French Congo: the situation of the natives
Chapter 42 In French Indochina: the situation of the Annamites
Chapter 43 Conclusion
Part 44 Appendix D:Emile Dermenghem, The North-African Crisis
Part 45 Brief chronology
Part 46 Bibliography
