....” 62 The black radical thinkers I have addressed here shared a hesitancy about any knowable future that could be brought about with the right (or correct) theory. They all suggested something akin to a Fanonian leap that, in refusing to decide the future, left open the possibility of bringing...

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... that touch upon the possibility of ontology, as such—becomes clearer as soon as we recall that it is in this context that they both retrieve the Fanonian motif of the “racial epidermal schema” and insist on a contamination of sorts between the optical and the ontological: “We cannot shake the signified...

... that has been obscured by anglophone criticism. This lacuna, I argue, is partly due to the unavailability of an unabridged translation in English of Glissant's Discours as well as to the failure of Fanonian critics to account for his grounding in a specifically francophone Caribbean setting and culture...

... us a way to think through how we—because of the (foregone conclusion of) dialectical relation that structures our world and the reality that our world is defined by opposites—might (somewhat indulgently) read self-love as a call to substitution (in the Fanonian sense), a signal to the fact...