Fanon's nausea

Parallax

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 32-50

  Trotter, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0142000645     PISSN: 13534645     EISSN: 1460700X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135346499249687     Document Type: Review

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1. 'Intentionality: a Fundamental Idea of Husserl's Phenomenology', trans., Joseph P. Fell, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (1, 1970, 4-5), p.5
2. Another major essay from the same period concludes with the thought that 'there is no longer an "inner life"': The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness, trans., Forrest Williams and Robert Kirkpatrick (New York: Noonday Press, 1957), p.93
3. Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, trans., Robert Baldick (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965), p.30
4. Alain Buisine, Laideurs de Sartre (Lille: Press Universitaires de Lille, 1986), pp.95-9
5. Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, p.183
6. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology, trans., Hazel E. Barnes (London: Routledge, 1969), p.xli, pp.604-11
7. Emmanuel Levinas, De l'éxistence a l'éxistant (Paris: Fontaine, 1947), p.100
8. This is the case, for example, with Denis Hollier's elegant and instructive Absent without leave: French Literature under the Threat of War, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997)
9. Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life, trans. P. Green (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965), p.135
10. Edmund Husserl, 'The Philosophy of Existence', in Texts and Dialogues: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ed. Hugh J. Silverman and James Barry (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1992), pp.129-39, p.132
11. Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and Infinity, trans. Richard A. Cohen (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1985), pp.30-1
12. Phenomenology, Sartre said, ensured the investigator's 'proximity' to the object of investigation: Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions, trans. Philip Mairet (London: Routledge, 1994), p.23
13. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, p.xxii
14. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962), p.363
15. For a subtle and thorough analysis of the 'existential politics' Merleau-Ponty developed during and after the Second World War, see Kerry H. Whiteside, Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of an Existential Politics, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988)
16. On the Hegelianism of Merleau-Ponty's early work, see Barry Cooper, 'Hegelian Elements in Merleau-Ponty's La Structure du comportment,' International Philosophical Quarterly, 15, 1975, pp.411-23
17. College of Sociology, p.xix
18. See, for example, Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind E Krauss, Formless: A user's guide (New York: Zone Books, 1977), pp.67-73
19. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1962), pp.228-35
20. Emmanuel Levinas, De l'évasion (Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1982)
21. De l'existence, pp.41-52
22. Jean-Paul Sartre, Transcendence of the Ego, pp.62-8
23. Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions, pp.66-91
24. Jean-Paul Sartre, Sketch, p.76
25. Maurice Blanchot, 'The Novels of Sartre', in The Work of Fire, trans. Charlotte Mandell (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), 191-207, p.196. Blanchot attributes the remark to Sartre himself
26. Merleau-Ponty's understanding both of the sedimentations the world leaves in consciousness, and of the sedimentations which consciousness leaves in the world, would require an essay to itself. For a preliminary analysis of the trope, see Jerry H.Gill, Merleau-Ponty and Metaphor (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1991), p.25
27. Emmanuel Levinas, Time and the Other, trans. Richard A. Cohen (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1987), p.74
28. Homi.K.Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994)
29. The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation (London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1996)
30. 'The fact of Blackness' is the title of chapter 5 of Black Skin, White Masks: rather, it is a somewhat skimped translation of the title Fanon gave his chapter, 'L'experience vecue du Noir'
31. 'The After-Life of Frantz Fanon', in The Fact of Blackness, pp.14-31, p.14
32. Sonia Kruks, 'Fanon, Sartre, and Identity Politics', in Fanon: A critical Reader, pp.122-33
33. Frantz Fanon, 'After-Life', p.31
34. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1967), pp.111-12
35. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, p.110
36. Henry Louis Gates, 'Critical Fanonism', Critical Inquiry, 17, 1991, p.458
37. Homi. K. Bhabha, 'Interrogating Identity', in The Location of Culture, pp.40-65
38. Homi. K. Bhabha, 'Day by Day... With Frantz Fanon', The Fact of Blackness, pp.187-205, pp.188-9
39. Robert Young, White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (London: Routledge, 1990), p.147
40. See also Stephen Slemon, 'The Scramble for Post-Colonialism', in Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson, eds., De-Scribing Empire: Post-Colonialism and Textuality, (London: Routledge, 1994), pp.15-32, pp.23-4
41. Homi. K. Bhabha, 'Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse', in Location, pp.85-92, p.91
42. 'The Commitment to Theory', in Location, pp.19-39, p.25
43. See also 'The Postcolonial and the Postmodern: The Question of Agency', in Location, pp.171-97, p.183
44. Robert Young, 'White Mythologies', p.152, pp.155-6. In Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race (London: Routledge, 1995), Young argues that contemporary cultural theory unknowingly repeats patterns of thought through which culture and race were defined in the nineteenth century
45. 'The Postcolonial', p.173
46. The 'more traditional' arguments are: Ranajit Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983)
47. Eric Stokes, 'The Military Dimension: the Sepoy Rebels', in The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857, ed. C.A. Bayly (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), pp.49-99
48. The story is told in a report, under the heading of 'Foreign Intelligence', entitled 'Visit of Anund Messeeh; and his Discovery of an extraordinary Body of Native Christians', in the London Missionary Register for 1818, pp.17-20. The report incorporates several documents: a letter from a Mr Fisher to a Mr Thomason, dated 6 May 1817, describing the scene under the tree outside Delhi; a letter from Anund Messeeh (not Messeh, as Bhabha has it) to Fisher, dated 12 May 1817, describing follow-up work among the believers, who have now returned to their villages; and a letter from a Lieutenant Macdonald to Thomason, dated 19 July 1817, validating Anund Messeeh's reports. Bhabha's lengthy quotation from the Register ('Signs Taken for Wonders', in Location, pp.102-22, pp.102-4) is another poststructuralist artefact: it silently conflates Fisher's letter with Anund Messeeh's, Western voice with Eastern
49. Missionary Register, p.19
50. Homi. K. Bhabha, 'By Bread Alone', p.199
51. Sir John Kaye, History of the Indian Mutiny, edited and completed by Colonel Malleson, 6 volumes (London: W.H. Allen, 1888-9), Vol. 1, p.420
52. Sir John Kaye, History of the Indian Mutiny, pp.360-2. Kaye's history was completed by Malleson, whose summary of the incident confirms his emphasis. 'In a greater degree the annexation of Oudh and the measures which followed that annexation; in a lesser degree the actual employment of animal fat in the composition of the cartridges, constituted ample grounds for the distrust evinced by Sipahis' (History, Vol. 3, p.236)
53. Since 1808, Government Agents in Ceylon had been required to keep a daily record of their activities. Woolf published the record he kept in Hambantota as Diaries in Ceylon 1908-1911: Records of a Colonial Administrator (London: Hogarth Press, 1961). The letters he wrote at the time, many of them to Lytton Stracliey, his closest friend, have been collected in the Letters, ed. Frederic Spotts (London: Bloomsbury, 1990). Growing; An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 (London: Hogarth Press, 1961) is of course to a large extent on letters written at the time, to Strachey and others
54. Growing, p.25, p.193
55. Growing, p.157, p.159
56. Growing, p.22
57. Growing, p.111
58. Growing, p.114
59. Hal Foster, The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996), p.3
60. For match commentary, see Gillian Rose's absorbing and influential The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992)
61. A direction of illuminatingly taken, partly by way of a reading of Gillian Rose, by Isobel Armstrong, in 'Writing for the Broken Middle: the Post-Aesthetic', Women: A Cultural Review, 9, 1998, pp.62-96