Policies in the Body, Politics of Subjectivity. Fanonian Imprints

Abstract

This article explores in Frantz Fanon’s writing the relations between ontology and representation in the colonial subject and its links with the body. Our hypothesis is ontology implies to Fanon an ambush produced by colonialism (in a discursive way) through the tools of representation. Thus, the colonial body is a body racialized, expelled form history. In the second section we analize this set of problems from the perspective of ambivalence and mimesis to end on a tour about the links between language and history in fanonian writing.