Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:55:10 -0500
From: Karen Lynnea Piper <engklp-AT-showme.missouri.edu>
Subject: Re: Fanon


It's from _The Wretched of the Earth_.  

At 03:15 PM 4/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Does anyone know where the following piece of Fanonian wisdom comes from:
>"The native is an oppressed person whose permanent dream is to become the
>coloniser"
>Rushdie quotes it in The Satanic Verses, p353, (and Bhabha quotes Rushdie
>in "DisemmiNation").
>
>In case anyone's interested, I'm trying to work out how
>Gibreel-as-Archgangel can be simultaneously the product of his own colonial
>psychosis and the repressed of English history (the history that happened
>overseas).  An obscure problem no doubt, but it might help explain how we
>get mixed up in other people's dreams, how we become
>implicated in one another's traumas (as Cathy Caruth puts it).
>
>Sam
>
>Sam Durrant
>PhD candidate,
>English Dept.,
>Queen's University,
>Kingston, Ontario.
>
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>
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