"Escapes" and Displacements: Notes on Frantz Fanon's Oppositional Discourse

Part Three: Histories, Impure Foundational Histories

Alejandro De Oto, El Colegio De México, CEAA

It could be said that the colonized world is integrated by the fragmentation that colonialism has produced

It could be said that the colonized world is integrated by the fragmentation that colonialism has produced. Restoring certain unity is a need of postcolonial discourse. However, this is paradoxical: colonialism fragments but also unifies both the colonized and the colonizer. Therefore, it is necessary not to confuse this fragmentation with the rupture of a colonial discourse that seems solid and homogeneous in most of its articulations.



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