Frantz Fanon

were ineffective, nationalists turned to violence in order to decolonize. Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist during the Algerian war of independence, wrote about the effects of decolonization in one of his most famous books, The Wretched of the Earth, where he defends the use of violence during decolonization. In this paper, I will look at the chapter “On Violence”, in Frantz Fanon’s book The Wretched of the Earth, and argue that Fanon believed that violence was a necessary process during…

In the second and third chapter of The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon discusses the stakes of the struggle for independence. Continuing where he stopped in the preceding chapter “On Violence,” he elaborates on the dangers and possible pitfalls during and after the revolutionary struggle would prevent the former colonies to emerge as truly independent nations. At the center of Fanon’s assessment lays the development of a humanism that supersedes the nationalism that unifies in the…

Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, and Jean-Paul Sartre all believe that violence is the only means of casting off the chains of colonial oppression. Although they are correct in this assertion, they fail to recognize the full implications of this claim, namely, the promise of future violence and the impossibility of lasting peace. Frantz Fanon writes, in “Concerning Violence,” about a project of colonization focused…

independence from France on the third of July in 1962. A truce had finally been reached between French President Charles de Gaulle and the Muslim-led National Liberation Front. According to the first chapter, “On Violence,” of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon argues that the colonial world represents naked violence.…

Frantz Fanon argues in his piece On Natural Culture that a growing national culture grows in parallel to progress in decolonization. This resistance revitalizes and adds to traditional culture, while often injecting new forms of expression. He writes, “a national culture is the whole body of efforts made by a people in the sphere of thought to describe, justify, and praise the action through which that people has created itself and keeps itself in existence” (Fanon, 492). Fighting for liberation…

institution and practices of the Babylon System that were central to the maintenance of slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism. The symbolical music strategies of “chanting down Babylon,” were more effective in the proposition for revolution than Frantz Fanon’s ideas in The Wretched of the Earth. The symbolical music strategies of “chanting down Babylon” were important because they provided the people with songs that gave them an insight on what it’s like on the oppressed side of the Babylon…

Lecture 11 Frantz Fanon, “Concerning Violence” This reading is about the colonies, and it mostly focuses on the Decolonization. It defines the colonies as replacing one type of mankind with another. Decolonization is a historical process and it is deeply rooted in people history and beliefs. The Decolonization process always happens with violence. One of the examples for Decolonization is the separation of the United States from the Britsh colony. lots people lost their lives in does wars till…

Claire Denis’ Chocolat in juxtaposition to Frantz Fanon’s concept of colonial violence. 1. Introduction Analyses of the film “Chocolat” by Claire Denis in contrast to Frantz Fanon’s writing “The Fact of Blackness.” The title of the movie Chocolat was derived from a colloquial speech meaning “to be had, to be cheated,” in connotation with “to be black and to be cheated” (cited in Sandars 2001). Chocolat is a movie of endless delicacies, it is about the boundaries set by the racist society. In…

Frantz Fanon stressed that colonization and conquering of a culture or nation would result in a return of violence. This idea is exhibited in history by the brutal decolonization of nations, like Algeria. While Greece was never colonized by another country, it was under the control of many different countries within a short period of time. The powers that inhabited Greece had contrasting political views, which in turn caused political conflict and bloodshed between Greek citizens. Economic…

Violence is essential to the quest of colonial liberation, no matter how we call the struggle for freedom. With this straightforward proposition, Frantz Fanon opens the discussion of his liberation strategy in his third and final book, The Wretched of the Earth. The original French version of the book was published in 1961, shortly before Fanon lost his battle against leukemia on December 6th of the same year in the United States, far away from his adopted mother country Algeria. The first…