Language:
French
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Les Temps Modernes
Angaben zur Quelle:
635-636 (2005-2006) 159-174
Keywords:
Fanon, Frantz,
;
Sartre, Jean-Paul,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Examines Sartre's influence on Fanon's "Peau noir, masques blancs" (1952). Argues that the figure of the "Jew" helped Fanon work out his own status as a Europeanized West Indian, oppressed by French culture. He viewed colonial racism as identical with other forms of racism, including antisemitism, and all antisemites as negrophobe. But Western Manicheism, which associates Jews and Blacks with all that is bad and ugly, is countered by the strong impact on the Whites of the black body. Blacks cannot integrate into Western society because of their body, but Jews can. Jews, therefore, are both "White" and "Black". Jews can escape the stigma of their body into the spheres of rationalism and universalism, but Blacks cannot do this. Concludes that Fanon associates Jews and Blacks with each other in regard to the oppressive potential of European humanism, but separates them in the light of his particularizing theories on racial pathology and anti-colonial resistance. Fearing the all-too-easy universalization of the victims of modernity, Fanon opposed "Jewish spirit" with "Black body" instead of uniting them in the name of liberal integration.
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