Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong is quoted as having said that a Chinese man has three mountains on his back. The first is colonial oppression, the second is the oppression of tradition, and the third is his own backwardness. A woman, however, has...

Readers of Frantz Fanon’s work The Wretched of the Earth often find themselves conflicted regarding the message he conveys concerning the use of violence as a means of achieving liberation from a colonizer. His inherent requirement of violent...

When all that is reported of a political conflict is in dealings of terror -- of violence on each side -- it often becomes difficult to decipher who was right and who was wrong; all we see is red. Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 critically-acclaimed film...

In The Wretched of The Earth, French author Frantz Fanon focuses on colonization as well as decolonization and its consequences. Fanon examines and analyzes the psychological impacts that colonization has on colonizers but particularly, he focuses...

Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan is a saga of brotherhood and bloodshed. Set against the backdrop of the 1947 partition, it narrates the collective tale of the millions of people who suffered blows – both emotional and physical as friend turned...

In Frantz Fanon’s psychological non-fiction book, Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon criticizes the acculturation of the African American community to become much more caucasian to gain the perspective of superficial status. Fanon brings to the...

Comparative Analysis on Memmi, Du Bois, and Fanon The process of colonization creates a lasting scar on future society. Colonization creates a destructive and selfish mechanism by which a nation state dominates another to take advantage of its...

Changes to moral character, altered mental stability, and acceptance of adversity are effects of long-term oppression, well documented through both fictional and autobiographical works. When a force of oppression overcomes its subject, the subject...