The Oxygen of Revolution: Gendered gaps and radical mutations in Frantz Fanon's 'A Dying Colonialism'

The Oxygen of Revolution: Gendered gaps and radical mutations in Frantz Fanon's 'A Dying Colonialism' by TigersEye99

A response to 'A Dying Colonialism: Transformation and the Algerian Revolution'

by Sarita Pillay

It is 1959. The fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. The fifth year of what others would rather call the Algerian War – perhaps as a means to detract from the gravity of the event. This is a Revolution. This is a mass struggle by a people who will not settle for anything less than a new society. This is a tug-of-war between the defenders of a colonial outpost and the Algerian people who say, “no more”.