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Forced Recognition: Relation between Identity and Agency in the Works of Frantz Fanon

Authors :
Vidím, Václav
Ritter, Martin
Jirsa, Jakub
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

In my work I would like to focus on a relation of two notions very important in the works of Frantz Fanon. These two notions are identity and agecny. How does a colonised subject's idenity transform in the frames of anticolonial praxis. The two notions also stand in a relation to another notion - which is recognition. In colonial reality functions only a one-way recognition which so to say unwanted and forced. This kind of recognition does not reflect the reality colonised subject is in and it leaves him or her paralyzed. So is the anticolonial praxis a question of identity or of agency? What is a "lived experience of a black"? What is Fanon's opinion of Sartre's theory of recognition and how does he reforms Hegel's master and slave dialecitcs? I will also rely my work on contemporary postcolonial theory.

Details

Language :
Czech
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
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