The Wretched Of The Earth: A Review


Fanon's book, "The Wretched Of The Earth" like Foucault's "Discipline
and Punish" question the basic assumptions that underlie society. Both books
writers come from vastly different perspectives and this shapes what both
authors see as the technologies that keep the populace in line. Foucault coming
out of the French intellectual class sees technologies as prisons, family,
mental institutions, and other institutions and cultural traits of French
society. In contrast Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) born in Martinique into a lower
middle class family of mixed race ancestry and receiving a conventional colonial
education sees the technologies of control as being the white colonists of the
third world. Fanon at first was a assimilationist thinking colonists and
colonized should try to build a future together. But quickly Fanon's
assimilationist illusions were destroyed by the gaze of metropolitan racism both
in France and in the colonized world. He......

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