GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frantz Fanon, Decolonization, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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We are superior and the others are below. Period of need for markets and raw materials. Exists in between of the colony and the imperial power. Flees martinique to fight for french revolution values in wwii. Begins to doubt the principles since he sees french sympathizing with the nazis. Experiences alienation from what he thought he was fighting for. Was disntanced from the french true meaning he thought he lived for. Tries to explain why he is still seen as inferior after becoming a doctor and being successful. Corrupt leaders: exploitation is learned by some natives and when decolonization happens corrupt governments arise. Zombies: alienation creates anger results on myth creation. Violence is needed because the colonialist fabricated the colonialized subject. Taking back world view from imperial powers. Breaking literary spaces dominated by the west. Reference to the glorious past before colonialsm. Trap of the universal: universally accepted concepts are really western applications worldwide.
