To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
— Frantz Fanon Modern

Postcolonial theory

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From 'Black Skin, White Masks'

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1952

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Controversial

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