Fanon's Two Memories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4439505 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John E Drabinski (0000-0001-5048-6465, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-22 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-1891206 |
| OpenAlex | W2330958274 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
This essay frames Fanon's work on revolutionary consciousness in The Wretched of the Earth with the problem of memory. In particular, it asks how Fanon's conception of the colonized is underwritten by a double-movement of remembering and forgetting. The colonized must remember grievance against the colonizer and gather the affect of rage into a will to act. At the same time, the colonized must forget memories of intra-African violence and the grievances produced by that violence. Fanon's two memories, then, create an undecidable tension of memory and history at the heart of his project in The Wretched of the Earth
Cognitive psychology · Colonialism · Consciousness · Epistemology · Forgetting · Grievance · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Temporalities · Theology · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |