Frantz Fanon

that comes not only to define Oscar de Leon and his family 's "doomed" and "cursed" diasporic story in the Greater Antilles (including the New Jersey Shores), but also the historically doomed and damned processes of the Martinquean psychoanalyst Frantz Fanon saw as defining the inhabitants of the Greater Antilles as the damnes de la terre (1)". Admiral Colon 's arrival from Europe…

Since Rene Descartes first penned the phrase “cogito ergo sum”, Western thought has been obsessed with the notion of the self and its significance. At the core of one’s self is his identity -- his absolute consistency with himself, which “derives its distinction from what it is not” (Bennet, Grossburg, and Morris 173). An inherent faith in the validity of this identity is vital, lest we become vulnerable to descending into an abyss of self-doubt and total nihilism. Yet with the introduction of…

connected to his personality. Stratton, therefore, also argues that Achebe does not advocate the dismantling of the structures of male domination but the incorporation into the male personality of qualities traditionally associated with the feminine. Frantz anon, on the other hand, would see Nwoye as a cultural dupe, someone who has embraced white culture at the cost of his native culture and would hence be a figure of…

What makes a poem a Black poem? The question at first blush seems absurd because of the obviousness of the answer. Understood more fully, however, this question is deeper than it appears. The heart of this query is determining defining characteristics or essential elements of African American poetry. One small sampling of college literature professors found that the most common definition of African American literature was “African American writers who wrote about black characters and the…

Web Du Bois was a black nationalists that took several forms of the most influential pioneers and advocacy of the Pan-African-ism. Du Bois was the leader of the first Pan-African conferences leaders in London in the 1900. The architect of four Pan-African congressman's was in London between the 1919 and 1927. This doctrine became important during the economic catastrophic of the 1930 and was appreciated by an ideological struggles within the NAACP events. Du Bois had originally believed in the…

post-structuralism in Europe proposed by western philosophers such as Michael Foucault, Derrida etc. Mignolo criticizes that this theory is lack of references from the third world thinkers’ thoughts who experience the colonialism itself such as Mahatma Gandhi, Frantz Fanon and others. Consequently, Mignolo’s attitude toward postcolonial theory and postmodernism looks…

Research Proposal Exploring the impact of displacement on identity in Jhumpa lahiri’s fiction; a postcolonial perspective Muqadsa Bashir MPhil English Literature Supervisor: Shamshad Rasool Department of English, University of Gujrat Table of Contents 1. Introduction……………………………………………… a. Introduction to the…

Events was very different than Guatemala The main difference was the leaders Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, at 26 he led a 150 man attack made of farmers and factory workers against the military barracks in Santiago de Cuba in 1953. They were out maned so he fled to mountains but was captured weeks later. Another difference was the makeup of the two societies. Cuba was mad up of decedents of slaves. Castro 's revolution would develop under the shadow of American government when it was a colony of…

that he himself is the extension of that mother-country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves. (Fanon 49) Resistance literature is a magnificent form of how people who have been once colonialized can stand and fight for their own identity. People use literature as a means of defending themselves, explaining what they have been through and…