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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: On National Consciousness and National Culture

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Fanon's National Consciousness

Fanon: National consciousness is nothing but a crude, empty, and fragile shell. He attributes this on the one hand to the way that colonialism has sort of mutilated the colonized people into the failures of the national bourgeoisie. The decolonial process is in a sense the colonized subject reasserting their humanity. And so there's that difficulty.

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