Franz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

Teacher's Day. Topic: The Wretched of the Earth

1. Franz Fanon’s “The Wretched of The earth”: An Overview Prepared by Daya Vaghani Department of English MK Bhavnagar Un iversity

2. Franz Fanon (1925-1961)  •  Born in Martinique, studied medicine in France, became a psychiatrist During French- Algierian war, Fanon served in a hospital in Algeria Died of cancer at age 36 Notable works: 1.Black Skin White Mask 2.A Dying Colonialism 3.The Wretched of the Earth

3. An Overview Published in 1961 A modern classic A seminal work which help us to understand certain things like decolonization, political violence ,poor structure etc. The book is written from the perspective of a colonized man. The book discussed how and why colonialism should be stopped.

4. Characters The Colonized The Colonists/Colonialists The National Bourgeoisie The Lumpenproletariat The Peasant Masses The Young Frenchwoman The Algerian Man The 13 year Old Algerian Boy The 14 year Old Algerian Boy

5. Divided into 5 Chapters 1.On Violence 1.Violence in International Context 2.Grandeur and weakness of Spontaneity 3.The Trials and Tribulations 4.On National Culture 4.Mutual Foundations 5.Colonial War and Mental Disorder 5.From the North Africans

6. Chapter 1-On Violence Decolonization, the power structure, the political divisions in the society. Begins with the term ‘Decolonization” Decolonization is the liberation of a nation and the restoration of that nation to the people. -Franz Fanon

7. How decolonization happened? Decolonization w ill never be possible through “gentleman’s agreement “ and by shaking hands. Fanon says that decolonization will be possible only by violence.

8. W hat would be the mentality of the colonizer and colonized to the decolonization? Happy or sad? Colonizer will have the fear of Decolonization Colonized will have the desire for colonization

9. Colonial world is divided into two worlds Colonial World C o l o n I z e r C o l o n i z e d

10. What? Separates the colonizer from the colonized These two worlds are separated by soldier barracks and police station. Colonizer separated the world of colonized from theirs using violence ,ammunition and weapons.

11. Do they have equal status?

12. ‘Manichaean’ World Manichaean is a P ersian religion found during 3 rd century. This religion is concerned with struggle between good and evil. Fanon uses Manichaean as an analogy for colonialism. After decolonization the colonizers are welcome to co exist with the colonized. But the colonizer always want to be first and they never wanted a secondary status.

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