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

Part Three: Histories, Impure Foundational Histories

Alejandro De Oto, El Colegio De México, CEAA

9 One could object this aspect of Fanon's criticism arguing that there is a contradiction between his radical criticism to colonialism, especially in the quoted passages that refer to the worlds of the colonizer and the colonized, and the holistic postur

One could object this aspect of Fanon's criticism arguing that there is a contradiction between his radical criticism to colonialism, especially in the quoted passages that refer to the worlds of the colonizer and the colonized, and the holistic posture of his cultural criticism, which is inclusive. However, as Robyn Dane has pointed out, the exposure of colonialism's mutual destructiveness is Fanon's immortal revolutionary act, because his appreciations can be applied to all kinds of oppression (75). In this sense, posing the existence of a new humanism in Fanon is far from wrong since he appeals to all forms of subordination. For an opposed perspective with a high argumentative level, see Oladipo Fashina's article, "Frantz Fanon and Ethical Justification of Anti-Colonial Violence".



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