Routine war trauma sundered the Algerian family’s internal bonds

Evidence

A woman led away by soldiers who comes back a week later—it is unnecessary to question her to understand that she has been violated dozens of times. A husband taken away by the enemy who comes back with his body covered with contusions, more dead than alive, his mind stunned. Children scattered to the winds, innumerable orphans who roam about, haggard and famished. When a man welcomes his wife who has spent two weeks in a French camp and he says hello to her and asks her if she is hungry, and he avoids looking at her and bows his head—when such things are a daily occurrence, it is not possible to imagine that the Algerian family can have remained intact and that hatred of colonialism has not swelled immeasurably. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 391

Categorization

• XREF: The broken husband-wife encounter — avoidance of the look, bowed head — reprises Fanon’s chapter on the veil and the changed male gaze in wartime. — connects to: Colonial violence against families forged Algerian national unity through shared suffering; Colonial war fragmented the Algerian family and individualized its members; Revolution transformed the Algerian couple from a family contract into a revolutionary unit — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 379

Related

• Colonial war fragmented the Algerian family and individualized its members (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial violence against families forged Algerian national unity through shared suffering (similarity 0.81)
• Revolution transformed the Algerian couple from a family contract into a revolutionary unit (similarity 0.79)
• Internment of men left Algerian women to sustain families alone (similarity 0.78)