hello comrades here we shall be discussing The Wretched of the earth preface and chapter one On Violence i was gonna write my own summry for yall but this summary and analysis i found would serve you all better than what I could write this morning, my sincere apoligies I wiil start us off with some optional question promts!
what did you think of satare’s preface?
what does Fanon mean by “replacing one species with another”?
who is the colonized intellectual? what role does he serve?
what does Fanon say about nationalist reformist movements? what are their failings?
why must decolonization be total and all encompassing?
why is the allocation of instruments of force important? I also want to encourage everyone to try to make critique of the reading.
these are just a few things to get the ball rolling, please let me know what I can do better! Please keep commenting and contributing to this thread through out the week for those of you not caught up, this isnt school there is no late work, in fact i hope people come back to these threads many times to see other comrades thoughts. lastly it seems like you guys really like the summary and study guide I found so I will keep using it in future post (its pretty cool its like sparknotes)
English translation by Richard Philcox – https://ia801708.us.archive.org/3/items/the-wretched-of-the-earth/The Wretched Of The Earth.pdf – you'd be reading from page 42 to 311 of this PDF, 270 pages
English translation by Constance Farrington – https://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Frantz-Fanon-The-Wretched-of-the-Earth-1965.pdf
Original French text – https://monoskop.org/images/9/9d/Fanon_Frantz_Les_damnés_de_la_terre_2002.pdf
English audio version – https://inv.tux.pizza/playlist?list=PLZ_8DduHfUd2r1OOCtKh0M6Q9xD5RaR3S – about 12h20m – Alternative links
Was meaning to read the first chapter in advance of this but forgot, I’ll have to remember to do that then come back to this - last time I tried I remember I was still kind of a baby leftist and I just found it too hard to understand, I struggled my way through Sartres intro and got half way through the first chapter before quitting for something else, hopefully I’ll have a better go at it this time round
feel free to used the analysis as a guide and free free to skip Sartre he’s a windbag and the consensuses in this thread seems to be that he doesn’t add much. and since our threads last forever you can come back to this whenever!