While I was thinking about the divisions between colonists/colonized or West/East, it struck me how humans have this need for easy categorizations. Fanon says “It is the colonist who fabricated… the colonized subject” (2). The image of the colonized is created in opposition to the colonist. “The ruling species is first and foremost the outsider [...]
Entries Tagged as '“the Other”'
Abandoning binaries, embracing perspectives
September 2, 2009 · 1 Comment · Passage to India
Tags: "the Other"·Charlene Ong·Frantz Fanon·Passage to India·Perspectives
Of embracing fear and the crisis of representation
August 20, 2009 · 1 Comment · General Thoughts on Modernism
Embracing Fear What strikes me about Levine’s “Ruling the Empire” and Gikandi’s “Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference” is the fear of natives and their possible influence on the West. Fear of the alleged savagery and lack of civilization of these “lesser peoples” (Levine 105) form part of the basis for the West’s civilizing [...]
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Silencing and the assertion of power
August 20, 2009 · 1 Comment · General Thoughts on Modernism
The Gikandi reading made me deeply aware of the fact that in fighting for a new kind of art that would rival their predecessors, Modernist artists necessarily have deny and subjugate another marginal group so as to assert some kind of individual power/strength. Despite the various meditations, to me, Picasso’s “avant-garde” technique is really just [...]
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