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Frantz Fanon's perspectives on the colonization of the African continent and the views of both the colonized and the colonizer provides some important insight into the overall issue and European influences during the 19th and 20th centuries. Fanon created some distinct views from the perspective of the colonized, an effective way of representing a subjectified population struggling for identification in the midst of European influences. This 4 page paper provides an overview of the topic and relates it to the findings in the current literature. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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20th centuries. Fanon created some distinct views from the perspective of the colonized, an effective way of representing a subjectified population struggling for identification in the midst of European
influences. Fanon wrote: "If psychiatry is the medical technique that aims to enable man no longer to be a stranger to his environment, I owe it to
myself to affirm that the Arab, permanently an alien in his own country, lives in a state of absolute depersonalization. . . . The events in Algeria are the logical
consequence of an abortive attempt to decerebralize a people" (Toward the African Revolution 53). This statement not only supported the belief that Fanon saw an absence of a cultural
consideration for the colonized, but set the tone for assessments of the colonized perspective represented in some of his other works, including The Wretched on the Earth.
The basic argument presented in The Wretched on the Earth is that the colonized culture commonly supports a racial divisions, the concept that black is bad and white is good.
This inherently leads to a kind of violent revolution, or the call for a violent revolution, that is a means of purification for the blacks (Wretched on the Earth
37). As a result, this work reflects a number of the cultural views of the colonized, the conflict that existed between the colonized and colonizer and the negative impacts
of colonization on entire races of people. Essential to Fanons premise was his desire to answer the questions of constant antagonism and seeming internal opposition. Fanon
discovered through the process of looking at the interdependency of the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized that often the same elements that led to a perception of the
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