Rereading a canonical work across decades reveals one’s own changing temper

Evidence

I still have my youthful marginalia in the Persian translation of Black Skin, White Masks and my middle-aged comments in its English translation; they show none of the anger I now feel. More than anything else, it is Fanon’s calm and composure that commands my attention today: — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 135

Categorization

• XREF: Marginalia across editions as a research method echoes how other scholars trace their own reading history in a text.