Chapter 3 Terms
Collective education, unity and awareness of a collective that is used to navigate interests post-colonialism.
What is national consciousness?
These two types of universalism are arguing that "consciousness of self is not the closing of a door to communication" but rather "its guarantee."
What is Superficial universalism/Narrow nationalism?
A figure who takes up arms to defend their nation's legitimacy and studies their people's history to validate their cultural identity
What is a native intellectual?
Fanon believes this to be intertwined with liberation.
What is culture?
The occurrence where the former colonizer and post-colonial bourgeoisie act through each other where the former power exudes economic manipulation.
What is neo-colonialism?
Attitudes that are potentially harmful, especially when national bourgeoisie merely imitate European behaviors and attitudes.
What is Elite cosmopolitanism?
A form of preservation of culture born from the strife of national liberation.
What is national culture?
Fanon advises intellectuals to include this in their approaches to culture so they may garner a dynamic view of culture reflective of present people.
What is struggles for liberation?
When national consciousness can’t be achieved, people become ethnically divided.
What is tribalism?
A type of liberation that is unachievable for former colonies if they solely rely on bourgeoise leadership, mass participation is needed.
What is true liberation?
Genuine cultural preservation and its efforts, which echo the society’s sentiment for truly achieving national sovereignty.
What is national liberation?
Actively seeks to destroy indigenous cultural life through systematic oppression, legal restructuring, and forced displacement of native customs.
What is colonial domination?
More radical approach to nationalism that results the bourgeois failing to consider the other classes.
What is chauvinism?
Wrote literature and their work that previously catered to the interests of their colonizer (by subjecting themselves), has now transformed to cater to the people.
What is national writers?
In the process of nation-building, nation states adopt an exude external cultural influences.
What is Universal Dimension?
Adoption or assimilation of Colonial Culture by the oppressed, specifically by the intellectual, Revival of former cultural practices, The emergence of the fighting phase, which is the society creating and producing national and revolutionary literature
What is the three stages to cultural resistance?
The privileged middle class that emerges after independence, characterized by their tendency to exploit their own people while serving foreign interests
What is the national bourgeoise?
A type interaction at the global level, Fanon suggest must be distinct from one another--this being the basis of cosmopolitanism.
What is cultural exchanges?
Colonizer convincing colonies of a social hierarchy where they are inferior. Colonialism causes the colonized to hesitate their worth historically and culturally, as well as, the truth behind it. The affect is either internalized cultural hesitation and romaticization/adoption of the colonizers traditions or hyper preservation of tradition.
What is Colonial culture?
Transcends narrow nationalism to embrace universal values, allowing the culture to both influence and be influenced by other cultures. The liberation struggle thus becomes the foundation for cultural renewal and international dialogue.