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Frantz Fanon
William
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Chapter 1 “On Violence”
Shakespeare
The
TheTempest
Tempest
The Wretched of the Earth

Matthew McDonald,
Nguyen Thi Thu Thao & Lan Thi Nguyen
 Week 7 Agenda

Class 1 Class 2
• Pre-Reading Keywords & • Re-Cap Crossword
Concepts
• Israel Hamas
• Frantz Fanon
• Fanon: Decolonization &
• Class Reading: Select Pieces Postcolonialism (pp. 30-62)
of Text (pp. 1-30)
• Key Themes
 Fanon in 2023?
• In Groups, see if you can answer the following question
- how might we apply Fanon’s ideas from “On Violence” to understand the
recent Israel-Hamas conflict? Apply the keywords, concepts and themes on
the handout to help, and give actual examples
*Researchers and public intellectuals like Noam Chomsky argue that Palestine is a colony
of Israel
Noam Chomsky: Palestine – Israel Conflict https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=lUQ_0MubbcM
 Fanon: Decolonization & Postcolonialism
(pp. 30-60)

Colonization Decolonization Postcolonialism

The process of The process of revealing A theoretical approach
establishing control and dismantling
that is concerned with
over targeted territories colonialist power in all its
the lasting impact of
forms through violence
or peoples for the colonization in former
initially
purpose of taxation, colonies
control, cultivation,
settling them etc.
 Fanon: Decolonization &
Postcolonialism (pp. 30-60)
• “In its narcissistic monologue the colonialist bourgeoisie,
by way of its academics, had implanted in the minds of
the colonized that the essential values - meaning
Western values - remain eternal despite all errors
attributable to man….and there in the back of his mind
stood a sentinel on duty guarding the Greco-Roman
pedestal” (p. ??)
• Fanon is arguing there are multiple forms of knowledge
(truth). European forms of knowledge, their values and
culture, are presented as superior when they are not
 One Sun, One Truth?
• One Absolute Good. A
rejection of relativism.
• Truth is universal, ideal.
Anyone can arrive at it, as
everyone has a mind.
• Plato: if we are thinking
correctly will arrive at one
Ultimate Truth, one Absolute
Good.
Fanon & Vietnam: Decolonization & Postcolonialism (pp. 30-60)
Fanon & Vietnam: Decolonization & Postcolonialism
(pp. 30-60)
In Groups, see if you can answer the following question
- to what extent do Fanon's ideas apply to Vietnam today?
What might be some of the lasting impacts of Chinese and
French colonization? Give examples:
*values
*religion
*culture
*language
*national identity
 Frantz Fanon: Further Resources
• Two excellent podcasts on Frantz Fanon to
deepen your knowledge

- CBC Ideas (Canadian Broadcasting Commission)

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/decolonizing-the-
mind-the-life-and-work-of-frantz-fanon-1.6609671

- BBC Radio 3 Arts & Ideas

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09bk7z8
 Frantz Fanon: Further Resources
Brown, G. W., McLean, I., & McMillan, A. (2018). The concise oxford
dictionary of politics and international relations. Oxford University
Press.
Renault, M. (2015). Fanon and Tran Duc Thao: The Making of French
Anticolonialism. Nottingham French Studies, 54(1), 107-118.
Selwyn, B. (2023). De/Recolonising Development: Fanon, Rostow, and
the violence of social change. Antipode.