It basically argues with colonists on their own terms. For Fanon, this is too reactive of an approach. This is what is sometimes called the “Négritude” movement. The intellectual’s strategy is to counter the demeaning force of colonized culture by “racializing” culture, for instance advocating for a “Negro literature” or “Negro art” that unites all of Africa. What can the colonized do to assert or reclaim or newly produce culture after this kind of brainwashing?įanon begins by considering the “colonized intellectual,” someone who has been educated by the colonist but reacts against him. This chapter asks, relatedly: how can a national culture form after independence? Colonialism destroys and perverts culture, for instance teaching the colonized to consider their past as unworthy or evil. That chapter was about how a nation can form politically to replace the colonists after independence. This chapter, which was first presented as a paper at the Second Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Rome in 1959, is in some ways a continuation of the previous chapter.
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