Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Patterns of Prejudice
Angaben zur Quelle:
29,4 (1995) 3-17
Keywords:
Fanon, Frantz,
;
Eliot, George,
Abstract:
In examining how the history of antisemitism has either been marginalized or excluded in post-colonial theory, analyzes racial assumptions in Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" (1876) and Fanon's "Black Skin, White Masks" (1952). Both writers tend to place the Jews within the "white race" or "Western civilization, " while pointing to their ambivalent position between the two "races"; being essentially "white, " the Jew may in some cases emerge as "Black" or "non-white." Distinguishes two strands in Fanon's attitude to antisemitism. On the one hand, he brings together oppression of Blacks and European antisemitism, because in the Western Manichaean mentality both the Jew and the Black embody evil. On the other hand, the psychological essences of antisemitism and of anti-Black racism are different: racism has a biological, visceral nature, whereas antisemitism has a more cultural, cerebral, and doctrinal nature. Criticizes Fanon's views, contending that antisemites often speak about Jews in purely racial, physical terms, and that anti-Black racism may be "rationalized." The response to the victimization of both Jews and "colonial peoples" must be universalistic; the gap between post-colonial and post-Holocaust writing must be overcome.
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