AFRS BC 2004x Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Frantz Fanon, Psychoanalysis
31 Aug 2016
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Writer was a psychoanalyst and philosopher from the caribbean. Talks about the future of africa as nations. Racial citizenship people of the black race would have citizenship in. Wanted africa to become a union of nations divided along colonial lines. Belief that nationalism and national culture are two separate things. Linked to struggle, the present, and community. Causal relationship between a symbol of nationalism that results in pride. These symbols are the types used in the europe. This national discourse was mainly for the middle and upper class people. The lower class found themselves in pretty much the same position as they were under colonialist rule. Tribes" clumped together into one unified nation . African americans have very different immediate struggles than, for example, someone in botswana. These people may form different nationalist groups. Fanon knows that one way of creating a nation is through force and violence directed towards the colonizer .
