(Article) Lucie Mercier, The Translatability of Experience: On Fanon’s Language Puzzle
Fanon considered that colonial alienation produced multiple forms of relational pathologies, many of which expressed themselves in and through blockages in communication rather than through explicit conflict. Exposing the role of language as a vector of racial violence and colonial oppression, Fanon also presented it as a potentially revolutionary medium of decolonization. The article has … Read more(Article) Lucie Mercier, The Translatability of Experience: On Fanon’s Language Puzzle