I am not a prisoner of history’

Frantz Fanon, temporal defiance, and the critique of colonial time

Bibliographic Data

ID11904025
AuthorsOnni Ahvonen (0009-0007-6995-7600, University of Helsinki, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume52
Issue186
Publication date2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of African Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.62191/roape-2025-0063
OpenAlexW4414970141
LanguageEN
References cited24

Reflecting on the revolutionary life and legacy of Frantz Fanon a century since his birth, this article explores Fanon’s critique of colonial time and the alternative temporal registers he identified in struggles for decolonisation and black liberation. The article outlines a Fanonian critique of colonial temporality while simultaneously exploring practices of freedom dreaming and attempts at conceptualising anti-colonial theories of time and history through Fanon’s writings. Finally, it discusses the novel ways in which Fanon (re)conceptualised the relation between the past, present and future while engendering a praxis herein termed temporal defiance

Colonialism · Decolonization · Praxis · Relation (database · Temporality · Australian History and Society · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society

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