Revolutionary in Counter-Revolutionary Times: Elaborating Fanonian National Consciousness into the Twenty-First Century

One of the unique challenges of reading Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth) today is that while it is an irredeemably revolutionary text, we live in a counter-revolutionary moment or in a global context that has tried very...

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Main Author:	Jane Anna Gordon
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2011-06-01
Series:	Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
Subjects:	Fanon Wretched of the Earth Rousseau general will nationalism national consciousness
Online Access:	http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/476

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title	Revolutionary in Counter-Revolutionary Times: Elaborating Fanonian National Consciousness into the Twenty-First Century
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description	<p>One of the unique challenges of reading <em>Les damnés de la terre</em> (<em>The Wretched of the Earth</em>) today is that while it is an irredeemably revolutionary text, we live in a counter-revolutionary moment or in a global context that has tried very hard to discredit even the possibility of revolution. Fanon’s text does not only narrate the effective undertaking of an anti-colonial struggle—of what is required for people to identify the actual causes of their alienation and unfreedom and together to will their elimination—it also outlines the various, often dialectical challenges of restructuring a society from the bottom up. Guiding and evident in the latter is the flourishing of what Fanon suggestively called <em>national consciousness</em>. Elaborating its meaning and ongoing usefulness is the focus of this essay.</p>
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Revolutionary in Counter-Revolutionary Times: Elaborating Fanonian National Consciousness into the Twenty-First Century

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