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He is, let us dare to admit, the enemy of values, and in this sense he is the absolute evil. The native is declared in­sensible to ethics he represents not only the absence of values, but also the negation of values. It is not enough for the colonist to affirm that those values have disappeared from, or still better never existed in, the colonial world. Native society is not simply described as a society lacking in values. The latter is defined not only as an absence of values but rather a negation of values - as subhuman in that he can't even be sensible to ethics. The colonized world is a Manichean world with Good (the colonizer's and their liberal humanitarian values) and Evil (the colonized). This whole structure is sustained through a system of violence. The natives are compartmentalized by being demonized, through western values, through laws and zoning, by infighting and mysticism.

Compartmentalized meaning that there is a profound sense of seperation between the colonized and the colonizers but also within the colonized. The Colonized Worldįanon paints a highly compartmentalized view of the colonized world. With that said, I’ve decided to share these unedited notes on the off chance they are helpful to other readers. These notes were created during my reading process to aid my own understanding and not written for the purpose of instruction. He was influential in the field of post-colonial studies and was perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization.My preferred way of engaging with books is reconstruction. Fanon, himself a psychotherapist, makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism.Ībout the author: Frantz Omar Fanon was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, it analyses the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for freedom. By Frantz Fanon, Grove Press, Paperback, 320 pagesįrom one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history comes this brilliant analysis of the psychology of colonized peoples and their path to liberation.įrantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century.