The subject of rebellion: Fanon’s call for ( re )action.
This essay seeks to understand the tangible expectations that Frantz Fanon held for his calls to revolutionary action. Fanon’s references to theinevitabilityof focused subversive action inThe Wretched of the Earth(1961), for instance, may easily strike one as wishful thinking given the difficulties...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 40 - 52 |
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