Currently... discussing Frantz Fanon's Other Book
I picked up Frantz Fanon’s first book “Black Skin White Masks” after reading Wretched of the Earth. Where I learned what goals the author hopes to put into action. To know of the social and political struggles he was associating himself with.
From what I have read Fanon's goal this time in the book BSWM is to rid people of Europe from colour prejudice. He believed in his day that the problems arising were out of cultural perspectives. Personified in the European. There was where he based his arguments from, from the European view of their subjects or colonies. How they view people of other cultures not Europe like himself.
It is interesting that he started a certain chapter in Wretched… perhaps “concerning violence”… where he states the position which pacifists cannot go beyond. For a Christian believer in Jesus teachings this is quite a starling challenge. He speaks of purity. That the socially oppressed can only become so only through violence. That only then can they find their lost purity. Or can they become themselves.
When reading fanon I seem to notice the words and experience of someone who views struggles as collective rather than personal. But if the cause of the struggle of which he can describe as spiritual figuratively is a social one, then perhaps it is fair to say Fanons collective rather than individual social rather than timeless struggles are and can pass away. Transient. His arguments are then only used up as much as the world in which he lived in makes it so. But does the struggle he speaks about help or hamper other struggles like of today? Does the right recognition for the minds of all men which he argues for find itself at base with some global justice movements today? Yes and no. I spoke of the global justice movement of this day which itself will pass or mutate into something else tomorrow. Yes his argument relates to today’s struggles if we are talking about cultural crisis in the Sudan, Mid East or the need for natives to put in. But if we are talking about the spirits of greed, wrath, lust for power and all the things which can find themselves in any government or communiqué then his argument falls well off. That is to say his I did not find in this book
Currently... discussing Frantz Fanon's Other Book
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