![]() In “Concerning Violence” US Hip Hop artist Lauryn Hill reads excerpts from Fanons book while Olsson shows footage that emphasizes the spoken words. Following the screening the panel wanted to apply Fanon’s observations to three different, contemporary contexts of postcolonial violence, inspired by Olsson’s documentary: “Postcolonial Africa” (Eckert), “Global Migration” (Lüthi) and “African American Experiences of Violence” (Martschukat). Only when postcolonialism emerged was Fanon rediscovered. In his introductory remarks, Jürgen Martschukat briefly summarized the reception of Fanon: In the 1960s with their revolutionary rhetoric Fanon became popular among western left activists, a trend that was reversed in the 1970s due to the rise of left terror. “Concerning Violence” and “The Wretched of the Earth” The panel used the documentary as a starting point for asking whether re-reading Fanon could provide historians with a useful tool for the analysis of (post)colonial power structures. As part of this year’s Historians’ Convention, Barbara Lüthi (University of Cologne) and Jürgen Martschukat (Erfurt University) organized a section to screen and discuss the critically acclaimed documentary together with Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University Berlin/Forum Transregionale Studien). In 2014, Olsson released “Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense” – named after the first chapter from “The Wretched of the Earth” (“Concerning Violence”). Olsson decided to use Fanon’s work as a means of interpretation for archival TV footage of 1960s and 1970s African liberation movements. Inspired by this, Swedish filmmaker Hugo G. This is how French philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon captures the relation between decolonization and violence in his 1961 manifesto „The Wretched of the Earth“. “In its bare reality, decolonization reeks of red-hot cannonballs and bloody knives” 1. Image: Photo of Streetart “ Frantz Fanon – The Wretched of the Earth” ( Public Domain).
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