A Dying ColonialismFrantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world. A Dying Colonialism is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in order to destroy those oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression. This is a strong, lucid, and militant book; to read it is to understand why Fanon says that for the colonized, "having a gun is the only chance you still have of giving a meaning to your death." |
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... traditional forms of sociability might be too severely strained . Here , then , at a certain explicit level , is the apprehension of a fact : receiving sets are not readily adopted by Algerian society . By and large , it refuses this ...
... traditional preju- dice to an appreciable extent , who had forced the decision to hospitalize the patient , would suddenly feel infinitely guilty . Inwardly he would promise not to repeat his mistake . The values of the group ...
... traditional patterns , is nevertheless in certain respects false . Colonial domination , as we have seen , gives rise to and con- tinues to dictate a whole complex of resentful behavior and of refusal on the part of the colonized . The ...