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fanon:betrayal of the masses
Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. Fifty years after his death, this theorist of revolution still echoes sentiments pertinent today but whether they are relevant in an era of post-modernism is open to question… …Fanon’s third theme is the betrayal of … Continue reading
fanon: wretched by birth
Frantz Fanon. the theorist of revolution and a prophet scorned. Dead for the past fifty years, there is still an audience… …The peasant, says Fanon, thinks in terms of armed struggle, of taking the land back from the foreigner, of … Continue reading
fanon: violence as cleansing agent
…He returned to Tunis, and, knowing that the remission he enjoyed from leukemia might end at any time, he finished his last and most important book, The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon worked twenty hours a day, interrupting his writing … Continue reading
fanon: relegated to second class
Frantz Fanon. A prophet scorned… …When he had recovered, Fanon returned to Tunis and was appointed FLN ambassador to Accra. His job was to obtain arms and volunteers from Black African nations sympathetic to Algeria. He went at it with … Continue reading
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fanon: fanning the flames of renewal
Theory of violent revolution. Theory of an outsider? Fifty years after his death, Frantz Fanon still has an audience but he had a peculiar role as the scorned prophet…. … The government reply was not long in coming- in the … Continue reading
fanon: towards the mystique of violence
…In 1956 the Algerian war, by then two years old, reached Blida and penetrated Fanon’s hospital. The police arrested some of his Algerian male nurses. Next came the turn of one of Fanon’s fellow doctors, a Frenchman who was tortured … Continue reading
fanon: accidental revolutionary
Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. Fifty years after his death, the audience still listens.Vintage violence… …At this point, Fanon could go no further, because, although he had discarded the white mask in his book,in his life he still wore it. … Continue reading
fanon: prospero complex
Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. Fifty years after his death, the audience is still attentive. Violence as the path of least resistance? …The second symptom of the Prospero complex is the symbolic equation of black skin with evil. One descends … Continue reading
fanon: scorning with caliban
Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. This theorist of revolution, dead for the past fifty years, still finds an audience… …The settler meanwhile, having created this Caliban, fears the animal qualities with which he has invested it. The settler develops what … Continue reading
fanon: grasping the hoax
Frantz Fanon. A Prophet scorned… … It was while a medical student that Frantz Fanon began to grasp the hoax of his upbringing. The Martinican, he realized, was a Frenchman as long as he was underpaid or unemployed, as long … Continue reading
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