Comments on: Moses as Fanon’s Colonized Intellectual: Wretched of the Earth and Exodus http://politicaljesus.com/2009/09/03/moses-as-fanons-colonized-intellectual-wretched-of-the-earth-and-exodus/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:19:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Antony Solomon http://politicaljesus.com/2009/09/03/moses-as-fanons-colonized-intellectual-wretched-of-the-earth-and-exodus/#comment-671 Antony Solomon Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:28:40 +0000 http://politicaljesus.wordpress.com/?p=460#comment-671 Post colonial studies as such are new to me. i have a couple of books that are rated academically, and I've just read Fanon. It's more the fact that when you start thinking in a certain way, you see how it applies elsewhere. Liberation Theology of the Latin American type deals with existence under the Empire. After that comes the question of what happens when the Empire falls, and the colonials come to live in the house next door! Equally, what is the relationship of the former colonial powers to those they once 'ruled'? Look at the way Mugabe keeps throwing colonialism in the UK governments face. That's what I mean when I say no one learned the lessons. I know Zimbabweans who think the blacks never had it so good, for a start. One of the keys is that a true Liberation Theology must remind us to love the oppressor. Post colonial studies as such are new to me. i have a couple of books that are rated academically, and I’ve just read Fanon. It’s more the fact that when you start thinking in a certain way, you see how it applies elsewhere. Liberation Theology of the Latin American type deals with existence under the Empire. After that comes the question of what happens when the Empire falls, and the colonials come to live in the house next door! Equally, what is the relationship of the former colonial powers to those they once ‘ruled’? Look at the way Mugabe keeps throwing colonialism in the UK governments face. That’s what I mean when I say no one learned the lessons. I know Zimbabweans who think the blacks never had it so good, for a start.
One of the keys is that a true Liberation Theology must remind us to love the oppressor.

]]> By: Rod http://politicaljesus.com/2009/09/03/moses-as-fanons-colonized-intellectual-wretched-of-the-earth-and-exodus/#comment-668 Rod Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:45:27 +0000 http://politicaljesus.wordpress.com/?p=460#comment-668 You are correct, Antony, on all counts. I am guessing that from your response on Mike's and my posts, that you consider yourself in the post-colonial studies camp? Thanks for stopping by. You are correct, Antony, on all counts.

I am guessing that from your response on Mike’s and my posts, that you consider yourself in the post-colonial studies camp?

Thanks for stopping by.

]]> By: Antony Solomon http://politicaljesus.com/2009/09/03/moses-as-fanons-colonized-intellectual-wretched-of-the-earth-and-exodus/#comment-667 Antony Solomon Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:28:00 +0000 http://politicaljesus.wordpress.com/?p=460#comment-667 I have just read Fanon's book. It was recommened because of Sartre's introduction on liberal humanist racism which is again raising it's ugly head in the UK. The book is brilliant, a totally non-dualist, non them-and-us analysis of colonialism, anti-colonialism, independance, and the Empire-strikes-back. His analysis of the different groups, and how they make alliances, or are duped into doing so, was very effective. And guess what. No one learned the lessons. I have just read Fanon’s book. It was recommened because of Sartre’s introduction on liberal humanist racism which is again raising it’s ugly head in the UK. The book is brilliant, a totally non-dualist, non them-and-us analysis of colonialism, anti-colonialism, independance, and the Empire-strikes-back. His analysis of the different groups, and how they make alliances, or are duped into doing so, was very effective. And guess what. No one learned the lessons.

]]> By: Rod http://politicaljesus.com/2009/09/03/moses-as-fanons-colonized-intellectual-wretched-of-the-earth-and-exodus/#comment-452 Rod Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:51:23 +0000 http://politicaljesus.wordpress.com/?p=460#comment-452 I need to finish Said's Orientalism. Been working through it. Fanon is a genius, if you ignore/refute his calls to armed revolution. I'm just totally digging your meme. :) I need to finish Said’s Orientalism. Been working through it.

Fanon is a genius, if you ignore/refute his calls to armed revolution.

I’m just totally digging your meme.

:)

]]> By: Mike Koke http://politicaljesus.com/2009/09/03/moses-as-fanons-colonized-intellectual-wretched-of-the-earth-and-exodus/#comment-450 Mike Koke Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:02:25 +0000 http://politicaljesus.wordpress.com/?p=460#comment-450 Thanks for this Rod. I have read some other big forerunners of postcolonial criticism (e.g. Edward Said, Homi Bhabha) but I definitely need to read Frantz Fanon. By the way, I have tagged you in the latest meme on 5 influential female scholars. Thanks for this Rod. I have read some other big forerunners of postcolonial criticism (e.g. Edward Said, Homi Bhabha) but I definitely need to read Frantz Fanon. By the way, I have tagged you in the latest meme on 5 influential female scholars.

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