Fanon — Racialized experience through language and the gaze
The question that opens it
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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Frantz Fanon
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §2, sociogeny and critique of universalized psychoanalysis
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