Collective political murder suppresses traditional mourning in favor of silent gritting

Evidence

The lamentations, the wails, the grief-stricken faces, and the contortions of the body have today practically disappeared. The classic mourning tears are hardly any longer to be found in Algeria. All this began in 1955 when the French troops, for the fun of it, or in the course of a repression, would overrun a locality and machinegun five or ten men. These collective deaths, without warning, without a previous illness that had been treated and fought, abandoned in the ditch on the edge of the road, cannot set into motion emotional mechanisms that are homogeneous to a society. Lamentations and grief-stricken faces are part of a patterned, stable world. One does not weep, one does not do as before when one is faced with multiple murders. One grits one’s teeth and one prays in silence. One further step, and it is cries of joy that salute the death of a moudjahid who has fallen on the field of honor. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 389

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates Fanon’s definition of what dying in coloniality means — death stripped of the patterned emotional ritual that made it a social event.
• XREF: Connects to Fanon’s account of the veil and woman in chapter 1, where colonial violence likewise restructures intimate social ritual. — connects to: Public mourning is active psychological work rather than passive sadness — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 298; Collective shaming discipline is psychologically violent though non-corporal — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5618; Hate violence can be state-encouraged rather than merely irrational individual deviance — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101 (+2 more)

Related

• Fear of guilt by association suppresses public mourning at mafia funerals. (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial violence destroyed traditional mourning rites by making every death colonial (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Hate violence can be state-encouraged rather than merely irrational individual deviance #corroborates (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101
• Public mourning is active psychological work rather than passive sadness #expands (0.50) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 298
• Collective shaming discipline is psychologically violent though non-corporal #corroborates (0.40) — , The Rod and the Child, 5618