Colonial authority depends on the colonized hearing no other voice

Evidence

The old monologue of the colonial situation, already shaken by the existence of the struggle, disappeared completely by 1956. The Voice of Fighting Algeria and all the voices picked up by the receiver now revealed to the Algerian the tenuous, very relative character, in short, the imposture of the French voice presented until now as the only one. The occupier’s voice was stripped of its authority. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 329

Categorization

• XREF: The idea that colonial power rests on monopolizing voice/representation echoes the chapter’s meditation on death and colonial medicine. — connects to: Hallucinated protective voices parallel the colonized creating a national voice; The union’s two colonial languages crippled government communication; Balfour’s 1910 speech exemplifies the knowledge-power nexus of British empire (+8 more)

Related

• Monologue rather than dialogue governed colonial encounters since the Hellenistic era (similarity 0.87)
• Hallucinated protective voices parallel the colonized creating a national voice (similarity 0.84)
• The union’s two colonial languages crippled government communication (similarity 0.83)
• Balfour’s 1910 speech exemplifies the knowledge-power nexus of British empire (similarity 0.82)
• Authentic freedom requires both races to disalienate from inherited inhuman voices (similarity 0.80)
• French colonial broadcasting in Algeria dropped Arabic content, serving only French speakers (similarity 0.79)