SCA-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Frantz Fanon, Martinique, African Diaspora
9 Apr 2016
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Discourse on colonialism: refutation and alternative, aimee cesaire. Importance of the african diaspora: as a student in interwar paris, became part of a vast international network of black thinkers from throughout the french. Most notable: leopold senghor, future president of senegal. A concrete rather than abstract coming to conscious of black identity, and affirmation of the value as well as the alterity of blackness (92) Teacher of frantz fanon revolutionary martinican psychologist and theorist who fought for algerian independence. Prosecution of modern, liberal humanist, bourgeois european civilization an ethical calling to account of its means and ends. European ( western ) civilization is decadent, stricken, drying and indefensible precisely because it is failing on its own terms it is hypocritical, thus morality and spiritually indefensible. Anti colonial poetics and politics that put pressure on western definitions of modernity by insisting on modernity"s complicity with colonialism, racial genocide, and modes of enslavement (kaussen)
