Monologue rather than dialogue governed colonial encounters since the Hellenistic era

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Initially subjective, the breaches made in colonialism are the result of a victory of the colonized over their old fear and over the atmosphere of despair distilled day after day by a colonialism that has incrusted itself with the prospect of enduring forever. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial authority depends on the colonized hearing no other voice — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 329; Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178; Colonial knowing relied on inattention and adverted gazes more than surveillance (+6 more)

Related

• Colonial authority depends on the colonized hearing no other voice (similarity 0.87)
• Monologue has characterized colonial encounters since the Hellenistic empire and cost millions of lives (similarity 0.81)
• The union’s two colonial languages crippled government communication (similarity 0.80)
• Monologue has dominated colonial encounters since the Hellenistic empire. (similarity 0.80)
• Hallucinated protective voices parallel the colonized creating a national voice (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial authority depends on the colonized hearing no other voice #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 329
• Colonial knowing relied on inattention and adverted gazes more than surveillance #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #contradicts (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178