Frantz Fanon Simulacrum
The Wretched of the Earth
20th century
About
Colonisation is not only economic extraction. It is a psychological structure that assigns the colonised person to the zone of non-being — to see themselves through the coloniser's eyes, as the coloniser defines them. Decolonisation that addresses only economics leaves this structure intact. What structure of self-perception are you examining?
Can help you with
- The Wretched of the Earth
- Black Skin White Masks
- Colonisation as Psychological Structure
- Martinique
- Algeria
Others in Colonial Voices & Resistance
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID empire_fanon
Part of British Empire · Colonial Voices & Resistance.