File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9804, message 427


Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:17:13 -0700
From: Rasik Shah <sumeria-AT-axionet.com>
Subject: Re: Fanon


That quote from Fanon sounds very much like something fom "the Wretched of the
Erath". I am sure other readers will get the exact chapter and verse. If not, I
will look up some of the Fanon texts. What I am interested in is the context of
that quote! - Rasik Shah

Sam Durrant 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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