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Frantz Fanon

1952

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When a dominant language and others’ gaze alter the meaning of one’s body, can a neutral observer explain the experience fully?

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Fanon — Racialized experience through language and the gaze

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When a dominant language and others’ gaze alter the meaning of one’s body, can a neutral observer explain the experience fully?

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    Black Skin, White Masks uses phenomenology and psychoanalysis to examine how colonial language, recognition, and the racist gaze organize bodily experience and self-relation.

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    • Frantz Fanon

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2 Black Skin, White Masks; language, recognition, and lived experience

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    Fanon resists simply applying universalized European psychoanalytic schemes to colonial subjects and includes the social-historical world producing individual symptoms.

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      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2, sociogeny and critique of universalized psychoanalysis

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  1. 1952

    Black Skin, White Masks analyzes colonialism not only as an institution but as an epistemic structure inscribed in body and language.

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