What Frantz Fanon thinks about agency
French psychiatrist and political philosopher from Martinique (1925 to 1961), a founding thinker of postcolonial studies, best known for The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks.
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4 dated positions, c. 1961, in their own words. Our reading of what Frantz Fanon has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsDecolonization is truly the creation of new men.
↗The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox)books.google.com All 21 from this book
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Their wordsViolence can thus be understood to be the perfect mediation. The colonized man liberates himself in and through violence.
↗The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox)books.google.com All 21 from this book
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Their wordsAt the individual level, violence is a cleansing force. It rids the colonized of their inferiority complex, of their passive and despairing attitude. It emboldens them, and restores their self-confidence.
↗The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox)books.google.com All 21 from this book
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Their wordsEach generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
↗The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox)books.google.com All 21 from this book