Colonial geography of Fanon’s era no longer divides the world into colonizer and colonized
Evidence
It is one thing to be angry and zealous at 27; it is something entirely different at 57. Fanon wrote Black Skin, White Masks in Algeria, the site of French colonialism; I write in New York, the commercial capital of a beleaguered empire. The world in Fanon’s time was squarely divided between the colonizer and the colonized—North and South, West and East. The world we live in today is no longer thus divided. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 138
Categorization
- XREF: Contrasts with the strict metropolitan-colony binary in Fanon’s own text and mid-century anticolonial theory.