From: "Windsor Shampi Leroke" <029LEROK-AT-muse.arts.wits.ac.za>
Date:          Thu, 7 Nov 1996 17:13:43 GMT + 2:00
Subject:       Fanon Discussion


Dear All,

Before we start our discussion of THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH [TWE],
I would like to suggest that we skip Sartre's Preface (pp. 7-26), and 
directly engage with Fanon. 

My text of TWE is a Penguin edition, 1967, translated by Constance 
Farrington. If other translations exists, it would be wonderful to 
read Fanon from their perspectives, too. I think it would be useful 
also for French-speaking/writing members of this list to raise 
questions about the translation of passages and concepts in TWE.

I agree that the best place to start TWE is Chapter 1, "Concerning 
Violence", for the simple reason that this Chapter deals with the 
issue of the "colonial world" and the process of decolonization. Let us
read and discuss, for next week, pages 27-47. The discussion of these pages operates with the following concepts: 
decolonization, violence, liberation, transition, new nation,  new state, 
colonized/native, consciousness, history, colonizer/settler, colonial 
system, "the others", Manichaean world, values, native intellectual, 
frontier. However, what is important to note is 
Fanon's description of the "colonial world", 
a world which he sees as essentially Manichaean (p.31, 32, 
39, 40, ). But this is a world which is constructed by the colonizer 
(p.32). In this regard, I think it is important for us to examine 
the details of Fanon's analysis of the "colonial world", 
as this has implications for (1) the process of decolonization and (2) 
the formation of the "new nation", the "new state", the post-colonial state. 

To give everyone enough time to access and re (read) 
their copies of TWE, we should start our discussion on November 11.

I hope this is fine with everybody.

Cheers,

Windsor.







  
Windsor S. Leroke
Lecturer & Research Associate (SWOP)
Department of Sociology 
University of the Witwatersrand.  
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