Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible
Evidence
Nevertheless with all my strength I refuse to accept that amputation. I feel in myself a soul as immense as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers, my chest has the power to expand without limit. I am a master and I am advised to adopt the humility of the cripple. Yesterday, awakening to the world, I saw the sky turn upon itself utterly and wholly. I wanted to rise, but the disemboweled silence fell back upon me, its wings paralyzed. Without responsibility, straddling Nothingness and Infinity, I began to weep. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Colonial doctrines of justification push colonized peoples toward rigid counter-proposals; Colonial conditions make life an incomplete, ever-menaced death; Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable (+21 more)
Related
- Colonial identity formation proceeds through refusal of the dominant cultural models on offer. (similarity 0.85)
- Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable (similarity 0.83)
- Resisting oppression transforms the colonized person so completely that colonialism becomes unsustainable (similarity 0.80)
- Colonial trauma produces a feeling of nonexistence, not mere inferiority (similarity 0.80)
- Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.79)
- Colonized people reject the occupier’s values even when objectively worth choosing (similarity 0.79)
- Affirming the colonized self via rupture cannot resolve psychological damage (similarity 0.79)
- Colonial conditions make life an incomplete, ever-menaced death (similarity 0.79)
- Colonized subjects reconstruct their identity by hand after it is shattered (similarity 0.79)