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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Fanon"”.
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Frantz Fanon and the Dialetic of Decolonisation
… Thus in this thesis I set out to examine Frantz Fanon’s thought in order to provide a critique of post-independence failures in Africa. I will argue that whilst Fanon shared the same ideals as the anti-colonial movements in their objective to remove colonial regimes from power, that Fanon, in …
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Religion in the work of Frantz Fanon
This thesis explores Frantz Fanon's engagement with religion, and its impact on his theories of race and racism. As a cultural theorist and political activist with strong Marxian-humanist sympathies, Fanon asserted that, as an irrational force, religion anaesthetised the oppressed and inhibited the …
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The Problem of Guilt: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and Glissant
… Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Frantz Fanon, and Édouard Glissant. More specifically, I consider guilt and moral responsibility, using archival research to trace the unusual lineage of writing on moral responsibility that has lain unexamined in their work, and to undo scholarly …
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'To explain the other to myself': Fanon, Ramasamy and Identity Politics
… thesis compares the identity politics of Frantz Fanon and ‘Periyar’ EV Ramasamy. After framing an interpretative paradigm through which the core ideas of Fanon could be deciphered, an interpretation of Fanon as a rigorous critic of identity politics is arrived at. Exploring Fanon’s strained …
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Lumpen: Vagrancies of a Concept from Marx to Fanon (and on)
… Lumpen: Vagrancies of a Concept from Marx to Fanon (and on), tracks the concept of the lumpenproletariat from its coinage by Karl Marx through its reworking by Franz Fanon, the Black Panthers and others in the context of the colonial liberation and Black Power movements, and onwards into …
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At home in Fanon: Queer romance and mixed solidarities in contemporary African fiction
… have gripped South African universities, Frantz Fanon has been continuously disinterred. But the figure of Fanon often remains both abstract and plural within its articulations - interpretations of his body of work performing sometimes only partial allegiances to the whole. This means that …
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Black and Yellow Power: The Intersections of Identity Politics and Literary Study
"For example, the first chapter, ""Who('s)(e) Fanon: Black and Yellow Power and American Appropriations of Colonialism,"" decodes academic and political appropriations of Fanon and repositions him as a node for Black and Asian American ideological cooperation. These appropriations of colonialism …
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Racial Encounters In The American Theatre: Whiteness And Eugene O'Neill, Blackness And August Wilson
… theory, specifically the contributions of Frantz Fanon and Albert Memmi to this field, as well as those of many contemporary scholars like Edward Said, Stuart Hall, and Gayatri Spivak.</p> <p>Whereas O'Neill's earlier work (Thirst, The Moon of the Caribbees , and The Dreamy Kid) promotes …
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Amerikan dreams: Dialogues with white supremacists
… (Ansley 1997; Feagin and Vera 1995; Kovel 1970; Fanon 1967).
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Between Communist Internationalism and a ‘New Humanism’: Episodes in the Intellectual History of Twentieth Century Anticolonialism
… Roy, and the Martinican revolutionary, Frantz Fanon. This project examines how these thinkers understood the relationship between national, anticolonial movements and the international class struggle against capitalism. Humanism is a theme worth investigating not only because all these thinkers …
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Hummingbird oil she breast: Testimony and Resistance in Vincentian Redemption Songs
… have resisted colonialism in St. Vincent. Frantz Fanon and Stuart Hall shape the analysis of how these works demonstrate that the degradation of human beings by the imperial project is overturned by the creole culture that very undertaking has made possible. Warner testifies to the use of the …
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Beyond gangsta: hip-hop, web culture and racial masking in the musical work of Tyler, The Creator
… by scholars such as W.E.B. DuBois and Frantz Fanon informs the theoretical frame of this dissertation but also reflects Tyler’s investments in subverting American racial ideology in his controversial audio-visual performances. Through his participation in and appropriating of skateboarding and …
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False presences: Fanon's reinforcement of the female subaltern
… of the colonized female arises within Frantz Fanon's books Peau noire, masques blancs, L'an V de la révolution algérienne, and Les damnés de la terre. Through a close reading of these texts, this thesis aims to locate where these blind spots exist and how they are facilitated by Fanon, while …
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THE "FACT OF BLACKNESS" DOES NOT EXIST: AN EVOCATIVE CRITICISM OF RESISTANCE RHETORIC IN ACADEMIC POLICY DEBATE AND ITS (MIS)USE OF FRANTZ FANON'S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS
… black/white social relations often cite Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks for its psychological analysis of the "Fact of Blackness." Attributing this supposed facticity to a fundamental mistranslation of the original French text, this thesis explores the implications of scholar's adherence …
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Queer Natives
… Leopold Senghor, Jomo Kenyatta, and Frantz Fanon---both constructed and contested black normativity across diaspora."
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Black Male Representations in Non-Urban Settings in The UK
Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s assertion ‘the Black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the White man’ (Fanon,1982:110) this research project analyses the ways in which representation has affected the performativity of Black masculinity in non-urban settings in the UK. Framed by a Practice …
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The production of the sacred in postcolonial Africa
… of power to produce the sacred in Frantz Fanon's On National Culture and the indigenous authorities in post-apartheid South Africa. In doing so, I draw upon the resources of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies and African/Fanon studies to demonstrate how strategies of containment and …
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Being dark and foreign: a study of race in New Delhi's African student population
… to engage with anticolonial thinkers like Franz Fanon and Anibal Quijano. Fanon's thinking on the topic of discrimination remains grounded in experience, and as such, provides a critical tool to re-engage the histories that the project of imperialism undermined, as well as the agency of those who …
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