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Little Book Of Sufi Stories: Buy this book in a Combo. Other Books By Author. Once the idea of revolution is accepted by the native, Fanon describes the process by which it is debated, adjusted, and finally implemented. According to Fanon, the revolution begins as an idea of total systematic change, and through the actual application to real world situations is watered down until it becomes a small shift of power within the existing system.

The colonialist bourgeoisie offers non-violence and then compromise as further ways out of the violence of decolonization; these too are mechanisms to blunt and degrade the movement. For Fanon, this is the perfect example of a decolonization movement which has been enfeebled by the tentativeness of its leaders. In this essay Fanon describes many aspects of the violence and response to violence necessary for total decolonization. He also offers cautions about several different approaches to that violence. In the essay, "On National Culture" published in The Wretched of the Earth , Fanon sets out to define how a national culture can emerge among the formerly and, at the time of its release in , still-colonized nations of Africa.

Rather than depending on an orientalized , fetishized understanding of precolonial history, Fanon argues a national culture should be built on the material resistance of a people against colonial domination. Fanon narrates the essay with reference to what he calls the 'colonized intellectual'. Fanon suggests colonized intellectuals often fall into the trap of trying to prove the existence of a common African or 'Negro' culture. In articulating a continental identity, based on the colonial category of the 'Negro', Fanon argues "the men who set out to embody it realized that every culture is first and foremost national".

An attempt among colonized intellectuals to 'return' to the nation's precolonial culture is then ultimately an unfruitful pursuit, according to Fanon. Ultimately, Fanon argues the colonized intellectual will have to realize that a national culture is not an historical reality waiting to be uncovered in a return to pre-colonial history and tradition, but is already existing in the present national reality. To struggle for national liberation is to struggle for the terrain whereby a culture can grow, [2]: A decisive turn in the development of the colonized intellectual is when they stop addressing the oppressor in their work and begin addressing their own people.

This often produces what Fanon calls "combat literature", a writing that calls upon the people to undertake the struggle against the colonial oppressor.

For Fanon, national culture is then intimately tied to the struggle for the nation itself, the act of living and engaging with the present reality that gives birth to the range of cultural productions. This might be best summarized in Fanon's idea of replacing the 'concept' with the 'muscle'. Concluding the essay, Fanon is careful to point out that building a national culture is not an end to itself, but a 'stage' towards a larger international solidarity. This national consciousness, born of struggle undertaken by the people, represents the highest form of national culture, according to Fanon.

In his preface to the edition of The Wretched of the Earth , Jean-Paul Sartre supported Frantz Fanon's advocacy of violence by the colonized people against the colonizer, as necessary for their mental health and political liberation; Sartre later applied that introduction in Colonialism and Neocolonialism , a politico—philosophic critique of France's Algerian colonialism. Bhabha criticized Sartre's introduction, stating that it limits the reader's approach to the book to focus on its promotion of violent resistance to oppression.

Interviewed in at Howard University , she said " Sartre took part in this movement.

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He signed petitions favoring Israel. Fanon's writing on culture has inspired much of the contemporary postcolonial discussions on the role of the national culture in liberation struggles and decolonization.

In particular, Robert J. Young partially credits Fanon for inspiring an interest about the way the individual human experience and cultural identity are produced in postcolonial writing. Some theorists working in postcolonial studies have criticized Fanon's commitment to the nation as reflective of an essentialist and authoritarian tendency in his writing. Miller, professor of African American studies and French at Yale University, faults Fanon for viewing the nation as the unquestioned site of anti-colonial resistance, since national borders were imposed on African peoples during the Scramble for Africa.

Neil Lazarus, professor at Warwick University, has suggested that Fanon's 'On National Culture' overemphasizes a sense of unified political consciousness onto the peasantry in their struggle to overthrow colonial systems of power. In the foreword to the edition of Wretched of the Earth , Homi K. Bhabha also pointed to some of the dangers of Fanon's analysis in 'On National Culture'. He wrote that Fanon's dedication to a national consciousness can be read as a "deeply troubling" demand for cultural homogeneity and the collapse of difference.

Some scholars have noted the similarities between Fanon's conception of national culture and strategic essentialism.

The concept acknowledges the impossibility of defining a set of essential attributes to a group or identity, while also acknowledging the importance of some kind of essentialism in order to mobilize for political action. The last section of the essay was initially drafted as a speech for the Second Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Rome: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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