File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9804, message 426


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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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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



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