Nationalism - Fanon

Question 1

When does Fanon write The Wretched of the Earth?

Answer 1

1961

Question 2

What does Fanon say a movement needs to have meaningful independence?

Answer 2

National consciousness with a socialist dimension

Question 3

What does Fanon say about national culture?

Answer 3

Active effort made by people to share describe and praise the action that the population creates itself with and keeps itself in existence

National consciousness is the highest form of culture = struggle for independence in the shared identity of a nation

Question 4

What does Fanon argue about co-opting from the coloniser’s culture?

Answer 4

The concept of the nation as it is the internationally legitimate form of polity today

Question 5

What does Chatterjee add onto the idea that ideals of progress are set by Western nationalism? (something Fanon writes of)

Answer 5

Intertwines with work of Said
Colonised could not revert back but had to evolve to create a new nationalism that attempts to be Western nationalism

Nationalism remains powerful because of this linear expectation of progress the imposed on the Eastern world which wishes to distinguish itself from the rest of the world through its own community culture