Spirit of Bandung beyond Colonial Mobility

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-209
Author(s):  
Jeong Eun Annabel We
Keyword(s):  
Aime Cesaire ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
Liberal Humanism ◽  
Current Paradigm

This article argues that the spirit of Bandung’s relevance in a time of resurgent fascist mobilization is in the new logic of movement that the 1955 Afro-Asian conference in Bandung, Indonesia espoused. The critiques of liberal humanism and its relation to fascism by Ernst Bloch, Takeuchi Yoshimi, and Aimé Césaire reveal that an underlying problem of coloniality and movement remain in current paradigm of liberalism. The article situates conceptual reworkings of colonial-fascist movement by the thinkers Takeuchi Yoshimi, Frantz Fanon, and Ch’oe In-Hun within the trajectory of the spirit of Bandung. Through this engagement, the article argues that the spirit of Bandung has called for revolutionary movement beyond the grids of colonial mobility in the transpacific.

Sartre’s imaginary and the problem of whiteness

2021 ◽  
pp. 019145372110175
Author(s):  
Betty Jean Stoneman
Keyword(s):  
Aime Cesaire ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
White People ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Political Act ◽  
White Gaze

Jean-Paul Sartre’s failures in Black Orpheus have been widely and rightly explicated by a number of theorists, most notably Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire. Sartre has rightly been criticized for imposing a white gaze onto his reading of colonized African poetry. It would seem that his work offers us no tools for anti-racist work today. For this article, I read his failures in the text alongside his work in The Imaginary and Being and Nothingness to argue that we can learn from his failures and that his failures do offer us conceptual tools for anti-racist work today. I argue that Sartre’s main contribution ought to be understood as a provocation to white people. He is provoking white people to confront how whiteness works in their imaginary. The imaginary is nothing but what one puts into it, and what one puts into it is imbued with the historical, social and cultural. The image is imbued with the individual’s experiences within a historical, social and cultural situation. If this is the case, then the confrontation with and critique of the image is a political act. In confronting and critiquing the image, one is confronting and critiquing the situation in which the image emerges. The hope is that in doing so, white people could transcend the facticity of their whiteness in particular situations for the better, which in turn would have positive consequences for the larger sociopolitical situation.

The Last Muslim Intellectual

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Dabashi
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Aime Cesaire ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Intellectual Biography ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Urgent Task

The first comprehensive social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, this book explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-69), arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his time and contends that he was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before the militant Islamism of the last half a century degenerated into sectarian politics and intellectual alienation from the world at large. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad’s life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a post-Islamist Liberation Theology. The Last Muslim Intellectual is about expanding the wide spectrum of anticolonial thinking beyond its established canonicity and adding a critical Muslim thinker to it is an urgent task, if the future of Muslim critical thinking is to be considered in liberated terms beyond the dead-end of its current sectarian predicament. A full social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of the mid-20th century, this book places Al-e Ahmad’s writing and activities alongside other influential anticolonial thinkers of his time, including Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire and Edward Said. Chapters cover Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s intellectual and political life; his relationship with his wife, the novelist Simin Daneshvar; his essays; his fiction; his travel writing; his translations; and his legacy.

Toward a Multicultural Ethics and Decolonial Meta-Identity in the Work of Fernando Sylvan

2018 ◽  
pp. 106-144
Author(s):  
Daniel F. Silva
Keyword(s):  
Aime Cesaire ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
European American ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Enrique Dussel

This chapter seeks to flesh out Sylvan’s stance against Empire by interfacing his essayistic production with his poetry. For instance, in his O Racismo da Europa e a Paz no Mundo, written during the heightened period of anti-colonial struggle in Africa and Asia, Sylvan offers a theorization and cursory genealogy of European and European-American global hegemony, ranging from the European historicization of itself as ‘the standard civilization,’ the fantasy of European superiority, and its resignification of difference in order to retain the balance of global power. This chapter thus contextualizes Sylvan’s anti-imperial thought with that of postcolonial and decolonial thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Enrique Dussel; in addition to elaborating the points where Sylvan’s thought further problematizes and contributes to the theorization of contemporary global power.

scholarly journals América Latina

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Cristian Paula Santana ◽  
Leoné Astride Barzotto
Keyword(s):  
Aime Cesaire ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
America Latina

Este artigo tem por intuito refletir sobre a região do globo denominada América Latina bem como sua identidade manifestada pela Negritude nestes tempos atuais de globalização. Para tanto, dialogaremos com teóricos como Aimé Césaire e Frantz Fanon para discutir as questões da Negritude, e com Aníbal Quijano, Walter Mignolo e Emir Sader, teóricos latino-americanos que teorizam e produzemsaberes pela perspectiva da margem.

Literary Primitivism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Etherington
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Aime Cesaire ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Claude Mckay ◽  
Alain Locke ◽  
Primitive Forms ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Carl Einstein

This book comprehensively redefines literary primitivism, arguing that it was an aesthetic project formed in reaction to the high point of imperialist expansion at the start of the twentieth century. As those spaces in which “primitive” forms of existence were imagined to be possible were either directly colonized or otherwise forcibly integrated into a geographically totalized capitalist world-system, so dissenting writers responded by trying to reawaken primitive experience by means of literary practice. This thesis breaks with the orthodox understanding of primitivism as a transhistorical tendency according to which the “civilized” idealize the “primitive,” something that is usually thought to correspond to a binary of the “West” and its “Others.” Adopting the “point of view of totality,” Literary Primitivism argues that it was artists from peripheral societies who most energetically pursued primitivism’s project of immediacy as it was they who most keenly felt the loss of unalienated social worlds. The major debates are reviewed concerning primitivism and the thinkers, artists, and concept--including expressionism, modernism, surrealism, Rousseau, Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Luxemburg, the writers of négritude, Carl Einstein, the Frankfurt School, and Alain Locke. In close studies of the work of Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, D. H. Lawrence, and Claude McKay the book identifies a morphology of literary primitivism that centers on the literary activation of the primitive remnant. Along the way, the book reassesses the politics of primitivism, especially with regard to its decolonial horizon, and the prospects for understanding literary primitivism as an event of world literature.

HUMANISM AND THE ENDS OF EMPIRE, 1945–1960

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 773-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
GILI KLIGER
Keyword(s):  
Aime Cesaire ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
The Federalist ◽  
Humanist Tradition ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Leopold Sedar Senghor

This article situates francophone anticolonial thinkers—including Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Frantz Fanon—within the “humanism debate” in postwar French thought. Drawing on their poetry, prose, speeches, and interviews, this article reconstructs their critique of the humanist tradition that had identified the capacity for reason as the essence of “man.” It then traces their dialogue with approaches to this critique, including existentialism, phenomenology, and surrealism, that circulated in the metropole. The particular ways in which anticolonial thinkers built upon such approaches merit our attention because they force us to revise our understanding of the politics motivating the turn to so-called “antihumanism” in the 1960s. Drawing on recent studies that have highlighted proposals for federalist alternatives to empire entertained prior to national independence, this article suggests that the “federalist imagination” helped to inspire the distinctive mode of criticism developed by certain anticolonial thinkers and taken up by later scholars.

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