In
our postcolonial universe it is often claimed that Frantz Fanon has become
irrelevant, that his understandings of the colonizer/colonized
dichotomy, mediated by race and racism are no longer relevant. The
slaves have all been freed and The Other has returned to whence he
came. It is a central argument of our work that one need not have a
racially and geographically bifurcated society in order to see the
continued relevance of Fanon’s work. From how far away must The
Other, he who comes from elsewhere and is absolutely unlike I am,
originate? Must he come from across oceans, from a different
continent, from a different “race”, or may he originate from down
the street, the next village, the same village?
