« Le Nègre n'est pas. Pas plus que le Blanc »
In recent years, Frantz Fanon has become a major figure for theorists and artists working on the connections between race, representation, colonialism, and humanism in the English speaking world. It is not the case in France where the debate around race remains heavily indebted to an abstract uni...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Français |
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2005
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | In recent years,
Frantz Fanon has become a major figure for theorists and artists working on the connections between race, representation, colonialism, and humanism in the English speaking
world. It is not the case in France where the debate around race remains heavily indebted
to an abstract universalism which tends to obscure the long history of race’s presence in
French thought. Looking at the figure of the slave, Françoise Vergès explores its presence
and absence in Fanon’s Black Skin, Whites Masks, and in French philosophical and
cultural discourse. She reads this presence/absence as a symptom of the incapacity to
integrate race as essential in the elaboration of political discourse, and as a wish to deny
how the imperial and colonial past continues to shape political life. This denial feeds the
illusion that France has been disconnected from its imperial past, reducing racism to the
machinations of strictly economic life. Françoise Vergès argues that we need to
reintegrate the figure of the slave if we wish to go beyond race as a symbolic marker and
explores what anti-colonialits thinkers used to call a new post-racial humanism. |
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