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    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 decolonization because it fulfilled the colonized persons double…

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    Returning the “Gaze” Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John is an attempt at writing back to a hegemonic colonial discourse. The protagonist of this postcolonial bildungsroman, Annie, is struggling to form an identity while adhering to colonial ideologies forced upon her. However, her ability to write and speak back is limited to the colonial culture, specifically English literature and language. She uses the culture that is oppressing her as a means of liberation. Similarly, Homi Bhabha argues that a…

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    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.…

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    experiences of Algeria and Egypt in their process of decolonization offers the opportunity for rich historical analysis, particularly through the lens of Frantz Fanon’s theory of revolutionary decolonization. Fanon’s most important work, The Wretched of the Earth, specifically concerned the case of Algeria and the Algerian war, but that does not preclude examination of other countries. Although Aleria remains unique in that independence came as a result of a bloody and revolutionary war against…

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    In his article, The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon tells a story about a police inspector who beats his family. Fanon heard this story while he was working at the government hospital in Algeria. This man that came to visit him wanted to be cured. The man would go to work, and see horrific…

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    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…

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    post colonial criticism analyzes this discourse of post colonialism and neocolonialism and the functions and tries to show that these are factual and cultural imprecision. The foremost theoretical works in postcolonial theory incorporate The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Franz Fanon, Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said, In Other Worlds (1987) by Gayatri Spivak, The Empire Writes Back (1989) by Bill Ashcroft et al, Nation and Narration (1990) by Homi K Bhabha, and Culture and Imperialism (1993)…

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    Frantz Fanon Torture

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    The French Army used torture systematically in Algeria against the FLN and other opponents. In both the reading “Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth” and the film The Battle of Algiers torture was described as a necessary tool to receive information and to defeat others. Fanon in his reading described the uses and effects of torture and how it played a role in his personal life. The film portrayed how the paratroopers engaged in the torture and how it helped them get ahead against their…

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    on the touchline. They have suddenly become useless, with their bureaucracy and their reasonable demands [...] attempting the crowning imposture ‘speaking in the name of the silenced nation’ “ ( Franz Fanon, “Concerning Violence,” In The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove press, 1963), P.72) Fanon presents the possibility of a group of people who were colonized becoming the colonizers. He speaks particularly of leaders who are in between fight for independence and later do to their people…

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    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 system. Not everyone was aware…

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