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Sociologie et sociétés

Le langage et la décolonisation : Fanon et Freire

John O'NEILL

Domination et sous-développement Article abstract

Volume 6, Number 2, novembre 1974 Basing ourselves on the works of Frantz Fanon and Paulo Freiré, we analyze
the liberation of language as one of the essential and often ignored movements
URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/001535ar in decolonization. Every day life and the creation of a liberated national
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/001535ar culture, contributes as much to the profound transformation of social
structures and ways of thinking as revolutionary violence. Since ignorance is
an instrument of domination, there is no sure guarantee that a liberator
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liberates effectively unless it is surmonted.

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0038-030X (print)
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O'NEILL, J. (1974). Le langage et la décolonisation : Fanon et Freire. Sociologie
et sociétés, 6 (2), 53–66. https://doi.org/10.7202/001535ar

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