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. > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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