'Stretch' and 'Translate': Gramscian Lineages, Fanonist Convergences in the (Post)Colony

Kipfer, Stefan A and Mallick, Ayyaz ORCID: 0000-0002-8412-8604 (2022) 'Stretch' and 'Translate': Gramscian Lineages, Fanonist Convergences in the (Post)Colony. HISTORICAL MATERIALISM-RESEARCH IN CRITICAL MARXIST THEORY, 30 (4). pp. 137-173.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1569206x-20222142

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper establishes a theoretical linkage between Antonio Gramsci and Frantz Fanon. Gramsci’s critical-historicist method and its relationship to humanism, his integral understanding of Marxism, and emphasis on the moment of political practice resonate with Fanon’s articulation of the subjective and political-economic aspects of the colonial question, his activistic materialism, and his dialectically humanist universalism forged through anti-colonial struggle. Establishing this linkage presupposes engaging distinct currents of postcolonial Gramscianism in relation to each other and to the philological turn in Gramsci scholarship. In turn, a Gramsci–Fanon convergence helps elucidate the specificities of (post-)colonial contexts without elevating these into a civilisational-ontological difference. Emphasising their geographical sensitivity as a meeting point, pushing Gramsci towards Fanon helps us treat the global South and imperial heartlands relationally, in historico-geographical and specifically political terms. A Fanonian Gramsci (or Gramscian Fanon) thus allows us to tackle Eurocentrism without closing doors to a counter- or postcolonial Marxism.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Antonio Gramsci, Frantz Fanon, critical historicism, humanism, relational comparison, Marxism, anti-colonialism
Divisions:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Environmental Sciences
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2023 11:22
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2023 11:50
DOI:	10.1163/1569206X-20222142
Open Access URL:	http://10.0.4.139/1569206X-20222142
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3168897