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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe gaze, as a visual act, generates modes of power, domination, and control. It has the ability to categorize people, generate feelings of shame, and assert one's superiority. The gaze of the superior and privileged...
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From:Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 12, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThis essay argues that a more accurate reading of Fanon should reveal that he did not appropriate, but rejected Hegelian dialectics as a dialectics of oppression. Especially noteworthy is Fanon's observation that...
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From: Trauma and Its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Jenson problematizes Sand's use of analogy, particularly her overarching analogy between marriage and slavery, in Indiana.] The Colonial Social Life of Mimesis In recent...
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From: Paragraph[(essay date November 2004) In the following essay, Penney observes how Jean-Paul Sartre's analysis of negritude in his essay Black Orpheus influenced Fanon's ideas about the colonized subject.] 1. Looking for Fanon...
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From: Studies in Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date winter 1991) In the following essay, Wilentz asserts that Our Sister Killjoy deconstructs traditional “prescribed theories of exile” and presents an original narrative from the perspective of a female...
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From: Postcolonial Studies[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Dawson traces the victimization and emotional crises of characters deprived of a homeland or sense of cultural identity in The Nature of Blood.] At first thought it may seem...
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From: Holy Violence: The Revolutionary Thought of Frantz Fanon: An Intellectual Biography[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Perinbam distinguishes between the various types of violence in Fanon's writing, including coercion and physical force, violence in history, and what she calls "holy violence."]...
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From: The New Republic[Coles is an American psychiatrist. In the following excerpt, he favorably appraises The Wretched of the Earth, particularly extolling Fanon's social, political, and psychological insights into colonialism and...
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From: Africa Today[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Dane suggests that it is Black Skin, White Masks, rather than the better known The Wretched of the Earth, that best reveals Fanon's social and cultural vision.] It must go...
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From: Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Sharpley-Whiting argues that despite Fanon's seemingly masculinist worldview, his books, such as Black Skin, White Masks,A Dying Colonialism, and The Wretched of the Earth,...
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From: Colloquia Germanica[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Schmidt compares Henisch’s and Faschinger’s depictions of black characters in Black Peter and Vienna Passion (1999), respectively. While the characters in both works challenge...
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From: Studies in 20th Century Literature[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Menke describes Houseboy and The Old Man and the Medal as illustrations of a double standard characteristic of colonial regimes: colonial subjects are encouraged to adopt the...
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From: PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America[(essay date October 2006) In the following essay, Wu examines representations of ethnicity in Native Speaker and African American author Richard Wright's Native Son.] [Comparison] brings with it new problems:...
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From: The Postcolonial and the Global[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Radhakrishnan examines the phenomenon of returning as exemplified in Rich's poem "Diving into the Wreck."] First, the intransigent and raw immanence of Existence that is...
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From: Linked Histories: Postcolonial Studies in a Globalized World[(essay date 2005) In the following essay on stereotypes and cultural identification in Indian literature, Fludernik seeks to expand upon the colonizer/colonized binary in postcolonial discourse. The critic examines the...
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From: Goatskin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives on African Literature[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Okafor argues that Achebe fulfills the definition, developed by Martiniquan author Frantz Fanon, of a person who has perpetually succeeded against a challenge particular to his...
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From: Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics[(essay date 2002) In the essay below, Hamil examines the issue of self-definition in the Maghrebian novel in French through an analysis of Abdelkebir Khatibi's La mémoire tatouée, one of the first autobiographical works...
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From: Masculinities in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Literature[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, Larrier describes school as a zone in which children negotiate between conformity and resistance in Zobel’s Black Shack Alley and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Une enfance créole II...
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From: Books Abroad[(essay date 1973) In the following review, Green considers Taban lo Liyong’s poetry collection Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs, observing that it evinces a “genuine anger” at the lack of political and artistic development in...
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From: Postcolonial Literatures in Context[(essay date 2010) In the following excerpt, Mullaney studies the theme of coming-of-age in Purple Hibiscus against the backdrop of cultural, political, and economic tensions that characterize postcolonial Nigerian...