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The Wretched Of The Earth: A Review - Online Term Paper

The Wretched Of The Earth: A Review



Fanon's book, "The Wretched Of The Earth" like Foucault's "Discipline
and Punish" question the basic assumptions that underlie society. Both books
writers come from vastly different perspectives and this shapes what both
authors see as the technologies that keep the populace in line. Foucault coming
out of the French intellectual class sees technologies as prisons, family,
mental institutions, and other institutions and cultural traits of French
society. In contrast Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) born in Martinique into a lower
middle class family of mixed race ancestry and receiving a conventional colonial
education sees the technologies of control as being the white colonists of the
third ...

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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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