On Frantz Fanon. Colonial Bodies and Representation

Abstract

This essay focuses on the inflections that Fanon’s writing produces in the critical genealogies of colonialism regarding to the problems of body and representation. It approaches the colonial body as a notion coined by the fanonian criticism of colonialism. This is crucial to contemporary discussions about racialization, particularly to understand the way in which an analytic of the colonial body is at the same time an early critique of representation as a philosophical and cultural category. The essay deals with Fanon`s main texts with the intention of showing how these processes unfold and to ponder his writing as a central archive of postcolonial political philosophy.