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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
enlightening book filled with dense revolutionary ideas on oppressed (specifically black) identities under white colonial rule (focuses on the french colonies), de-alienation from white cultural imposition, internalized racism (the black Antilleans existing under white culture start to identify themselves as white, which in itself is a major internal conflict, and when they move to France and actually interact with white people their entire being comes crashing down. it broke my brain, just to think of the existential identity crisis they must have felt.), and oppressive past.
loved it's ideas on self consciousness and recognition in a white supremacist system where the self is distorted and depends on a reality of slave master dynamic; it leads to dehumanisation and dishonest human connection. loved loved the analysis of quantitating yourself based on "the Other" which leads to a general dependent and insecure personality. there's so much to chew on. there's a section on the white media substituting sexual desire and inferiority into violence and how it portrays the oppressed to rid itself of the oppressor guilt. so much more.
it's a decent 9 to a 10.
loved it's ideas on self consciousness and recognition in a white supremacist system where the self is distorted and depends on a reality of slave master dynamic; it leads to dehumanisation and dishonest human connection. loved loved the analysis of quantitating yourself based on "the Other" which leads to a general dependent and insecure personality. there's so much to chew on. there's a section on the white media substituting sexual desire and inferiority into violence and how it portrays the oppressed to rid itself of the oppressor guilt. so much more.
it's a decent 9 to a 10.
challenging
informative
"Scientific objectivity was barred to me, for the alienated, the neurotic, was my brother, my sister, my father."
This is an immensely poetic work, and I'm still largely baffled by the poetics of a lot of these Francophone anticolonial intellectuals (my mind goes to Mbembe's [b:On the Postcolony|149757|On the Postcolony|Achille Mbembe|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348177423l/149757._SY75_.jpg|144544] as another example). I want to understand better the function of this style, what it does, what it refuses; because it seems to me that it may be some kind of rebuke of something, but I'm not entirely sure what.
Other than that, this is clearly a brilliant work. It defies genre in basically every way, and more importantly, it (that is, Fanon himself) is conscious of that fact. It is kind of haunting in a lot of ways, and reading it makes clear its personal nature - i.e. that this is not just a political treatise, but a kind of autobiography in many ways as well. Fascinating, really.
Other than that, this is clearly a brilliant work. It defies genre in basically every way, and more importantly, it (that is, Fanon himself) is conscious of that fact. It is kind of haunting in a lot of ways, and reading it makes clear its personal nature - i.e. that this is not just a political treatise, but a kind of autobiography in many ways as well. Fascinating, really.
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
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challenging
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inspiring
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slow-paced
challenging
informative
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