Colonized subjects reconstruct their identity by hand after it is shattered

Evidence

But the constancy of my love had been forgotten. I defined myself as an absolute intensity of beginning. So I took up my negritude, and with tears in my eyes I put its machinery together again. What had been broken to pieces was rebuilt, reconstructed by the intuitive lianas of my hands. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 542

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonized man undergoes inner transformation in rejecting oppression; Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s; Rastafarians remade themselves by appropriating and transforming borrowed cultural materials (+15 more)

Related

• Rastafarians remade themselves by appropriating and transforming borrowed cultural materials (similarity 0.87)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.86)
• Affirming the colonized self via rupture cannot resolve psychological damage (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.83)
• Colonized man undergoes inner transformation in rejecting oppression (similarity 0.83)
• Resisting oppression transforms the colonized person so completely that colonialism becomes unsustainable (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.81)
• Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial identity formation proceeds through refusal of the dominant cultural models on offer. (similarity 0.80)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.80)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.79)
• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial trauma produces a feeling of nonexistence, not mere inferiority (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Wounded colonial subjects reassemble negritude emotionally after intellectual deconstruction #exemplifies (0.70)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #corroborates (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178
• Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible #complicates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #qualifies (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply #corroborates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 346