The Concept of Hegemony and the Question of Identity Readings on Postcolonial Theory in the thought of Frantz Fanon : "The Wretched of the Earth”

Abstract

The study aims at providing a reading on Postcolonial Theory in the thought of Frantz Fanon, in his book entitled "The Wretched of the Earth” which can be considered as an appropriate model for research on the concept of hegemony and the question of identity. It addresses the implications of the colonialism and examines the battle dimensions that Fanon had fought for the resistance, from his perspective that; colonialism created a binary world (or binary opposition), and that changing is not a mental battle between two points of view, and by emphasizing the necessity of using physical acts of violence (or anti-colonial revolutions). Also, highlighting the urgency of the issue of awareness and the cultural construction. The study also demonstrates Fanon’s important contribution in the founding idea of the postcolonial theory from his position as a psychiatrist (colonial psychiatry) who talks about the impact that colonialism and racial discrimination have on the behavior of both colonizer and colonized.