cythera15 's review for:

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

5.0

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I felt exhilarated reading the introduction and the conclusion. Some of the middle part, not much so. (Mostly because I am not sure what novel he is reading and commenting on.) Many concepts that he puts forward (Black man as having dual consciousness and language, different racial dynamics between colonized subjects, the othering of postcolonialism that was never quite resolved...) were familiar from other readings, and I felt some of his observations are outdated (in a good way!), too. People who have read his book have changed his future that is today. For me, that is an encouraging sign to, as he suggests, also move forward in thinking about the future rather than belaboring on discovering/recovering the past.

AH so powerful! But also so many new questions!