Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:01:16 -0400 () From: Terry Goldie <tgoldie-AT-YorkU.CA> Subject: Re: Fanon I don't have the French text to hand but in the English version of Wretched of the Earth appears the following: "The look that the native turns on the settler's town is a look of lust, a look of envy; it expresses his dreams of possession--all manner of possession: to sit at the settler's table, to sleep in the settler's bed, with his wife if possible."(39) "there is no native who does not dream at least once a day of setting himself up in the settler's place." (39) "We have seen that the native never ceases to dream of putting himself in the place of the settler--not of becoming the settler but of substituting himself for the settler." (52) There might be something which more precisely reflects Rushdie's reference but I can't think of it at the moment. t On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Sam Durrant wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:15:10 -0400 > From: Sam Durrant <4srd1-AT-qlink.queensu.ca> > Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU > To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU > Subject: Re: Fanon > > 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. > > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > Terry Goldie English Department York University North York, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 voice: 416-604-3670 fax: 416-736-5412 email: tgoldie-AT-yorku.ca --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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