The Wretched Of The Earth: A Review

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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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