Word: fanon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house that specializes in erotica and avant-garde authors. Its hard-cover Black Circle books and its Black Cat and Zebra paperbacks embrace everything from outright pornography (The Pearl) to mystical flights of sexual fantasy (Jean Genet's Miracle of the Rose) to revolutionary calls to action (Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth). It also has a generous supply of European anti-novelists and provocative psychologists...
...speech was marked boldly and unmistakably with the thought of Franz Fanon, author of The Wretched of the Earth, as Carmichael propounded a sort of you-wear-them-down-from-the-outside--we'll-wear-them-down-from-the-inside tactical philosophy...
...preached, in the duller pages of his books, the virtue of murder as policy. Explains Brandeis University Sociologist Lewis Coser: "The act of violence commits a man symbolically to the revolutionary movement and breaks his ties with his previous life. He is, so to speak, reborn." The late Frantz Fanon, a polemicist for anticolonial revolution, wrote: "Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex...
...settler regards the native as the "quintessence of evil" and the native wants "to sit at the settler's table, to sleep in the settler's bed, with his wife if possible." The native peoples must not only riot or strike but employ skilled guerrilla techniques. Fanon argues that hatred alone is not enough to sustain a war of liberation; only constant political work and propaganda can convince the peasant masses that freedom will be worth the ordeal; brutality must be used purposefully...
...Fanon is able to criticize his own side, particularly the one-party regimes, chauvinism, and native elites who grab all the cushy jobs and Cadillacs. But, in general, the anger is directed the other way, including the ritual indictments that native peoples were deprived of all benefits of colonialism and that Europe's wealth was "stolen" from the undeveloped countries. Fanon insists that colonial rule was as bad as Nazi rule in Europe. Above all, though colonialism was rapidly fading as he wrote this book in the late 1950s, he denounces neocolonialism as the same old evil and defines...