An Analysis Of The Wretched Of The Earth

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colonial
relationship as one of the non recognition of the colonized's humanity, his
subjecthood, by the colonizer in order to justify his exploitation.
Fanon's next novel, "The Wretched Of The ` ``Earth" views the
colonized world from the perspective of the colonized. Like Foucault's
questioning of a disciplinary society Fanon questions the basic assumptions
of colonialism. He questions whether violence is a tactic that should be
employed to eliminate colonialism. He questions whether native
intellectuals who have adopted western methods of thought and urge slow
decolonization are in fact part of the same technology of control that the
white world employs to exploit the colonized. He questions whether the
colonized world should copy the west or develop a whole new set of values
and ideas. In all these questionings of basic assumptions of colonialism
Fanon exposes the methods of control the white world uses to hold down the
colonies. Fanon calls for a radical break with ...

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