![]() ![]() The colonist maintains this hierarchy through violence by police and soldiers, and in turn, it is only through violence that the colonized can re-assert their own humanity. These identities are created by the colonist in order to assert his own superiority. In Chapter 1, “On Violence,” Fanon introduces the colonial world as one that is divided into the colonist and the colonized. That is, he both reports on events in the recent history of decolonization, and theorizes what these events mean or could mean philosophically. Fanon’s discussion is both theoretical and journalistic. ![]() Over the course of five chapters, Fanon covers a wide range of topics, including patterns in how the colonized overthrow the colonist, how newly independent countries form national and cultural consciousness, and the overall effect of colonialism on the psychology of men and women in colonized countries. The Wretched of the Earth is Frantz Fanon’s seminal discussion of decolonization in Africa, especially Algeria. ![]()
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