Word: fanon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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6.The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon...
...trying, in fact, to repel other women rather than attract them. Hundreds of young girls are learning karate, tossing oft furious statements about "male chauvinists," distributing threatening handouts ("Watch out! You may meet a real castrating female!"), and even citing with approval the dictum of the late revolutionary Frantz Fanon: An oppressed individual cannot feel liberated until he kills one of the oppressors. This is all borrowed, of course, from the fiery rhetoric of today's militant black and student movements, but a deep feminine resentment is there nevertheless. "In almost any woman you can unearth an incredible fury...
Except for the "Stanford Speech," each of the pieces has been printed elsewhere. They range from a review of Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth to Eldridge's interview with Playboy, but whatever the subject, the formal topic is always over-shadowed by the man behind the words. Let me drop some clues...
...really relevant," says a young raider. To the fedayeen, the model and example is the Algerian revolution. For ideology, they look to its apostle, Frantz Fanon, the late Martinique-born Negro psychiatrist, who preached in The Wretched of the Earth that for oppressed and colonized people of the world "violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect...
...press reports of mounting starvation in secessionist Biafra. The fact of secession and the consequent human casualities represent a permanent tragedy for Africa. Newspaper advertisements carrying hungry African babies whose survival depends largely on the outcome of a march-of-dimes-type crusade are a humiliating reminder of Fanon's sad conclusion that black people of our generation are indeed the wretched of the earth. Our fellow Africans who, for various reasons now identify with secessionist Biafra, feel this deep sense of shame also...