/lit/ - Literature

Working on
>The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon
>Discourse on Colonialism, Cesaire
for graduate school
Just finished a book on Quechua representation in the National Museum of the American Indian
>Earth-Beings, de la Cadena
which was super insightful, and drew upon
>Cannibal Metaphysics, de Castro
Both of which were super helpful in understanding contemporary Latin American studies/perspectivist anthropology. Get decolonial-pilled folks, it's worth the plunge.

oh my God, this changes everything

Admit it. Black Skin White Masks filtered you.

>Accusations that American culture and politics are saturated with psychosexual fantasies about race are not inventions of a crude and pornographic internet age, or of the right. They emerged in the mid-20th century among left-wing intellectuals in France and the United States. For the young Fanon (25 years old when he wroteBlack Skin, White Masks), they seemed an effective means of besmirching the motives of white racists and undermining the authority of white progressives.

>White Americans had created an image of blackness that combined animality, childishness, bodily prowess, and lawlessness. They had repressed these traits (the antithesis of middle-class respectability) in their own personalities but continued to unconsciously desire them—and, in a further complication, to desire punishment for craving such objectionable things. Having constructed a black stereotype, they spurned it, sought it out, and hated themselves for seeking it.

>For Fanon, this idea of white masochism was a revelation, capable of explaining why white people did not simply oppress black people, but also seemed to exhibit a strange longing for them. He had already concluded (on what he claimed was the basis of personal experience and psychiatric practice) that overt white racism toward blacks—ornegrophobia—had sexual origins. White women who fear the supposed sexual danger posed by black men actually long to be violated, Fanon wrote inBlack Skin, White Masks: “isn’t this fear of rape, in fact, a demand for rape? Just as we say that there are faces that are begging to be slapped, can’t we say that are women begging to be raped?” White male racists are “repressed homosexuals,” begging for the same thing. White people invented a myth of black male sexual superiority, symbolized by the black penis (which, Fanon insisted, is in fact no larger or more pleasurable than other varieties).

>White stereotypes about black people, in this vision, are not composite pictures built up from interpretations of experiences of black people’s behavior. Rather they are images invented for the pleasure of whites, and imposed, in totalizing and inescapable fashion, on black people. Indeed black people hardly exist as agents outside these stereotypes. As Fanon says, whites “have woven me from a thousand details.”

Anyway, what was this lib's problem? Inferiority complex? Too much existentialism?
More importantly who was he writing for? "Black people"? Whites? And for what purpose?

ITT: authors who’s sexual frustration bled into their work.

>single handedly turns leftism into a resentful cult of self-victimization
>anti-imperialist theorist but still accepted Western ideology as superior

What the fuck was his problem?

>”Colonialism bad”
>”CIA good”

Is Fanon based?

I completely forgot about Black History Month.

Why does Frantz Fanon continue to make so many people seethe almost 60 years after his death?

Anything I should read before getting into postcolonial theory? I was thinking of starting with The Wretched of the Earth, then reading Orientalism, since those are the two books that always get mentioned when discussing decolonization, but I'm wondering if there's any more background material that might be useful (other than Hegel and Marx obviously).

Was he right?

not literature but theory

What's the best order to read his books in? I got into him after hearing zizek talk about him. Also, general black /lit/ thread.

No fiction.