...the African states, newly delivered from the chains of colonialism. Fanon (1968:233) proclaimed that "to fight for national culture means in the first...keystone which makes the building of a culture possible." This phase of optimistic nation-building was enacted as the work of national coalition governments,...

...recognised the importance of this role for culture, beginning with Frantz Fanon, who contended that "to fight for national culture means in the first...liberation of the nation, that material keystone which 14 Lanfranco Ricci, Letteratura dell'Etiopia (Como, 1969). makes the building of a culture possible."15...

...belongs to this phase. Fanon proclaimed that "to fight for national culture means in the first place the fight for the liberation of the nation, that material keystone which makes the building of a culture possible."14 For many intellectuals of South Asian origins, it was Jawaharlal Nehru, in his autobiography...

...the level on which he wishes to fight or the sector where he decides to give battle for his nation. To fight for national culture means in the first place...which can develop apart from the popular struggle. To take an example: all those men and women who are fighting with their bare hands against French colonialism...

...the level on which he wishes to fight or the sector where he decides to give battle for his nation. To fight for national culture means in the first place...keystone which makes the building of a culture possible. ... A national culture is not a folklore, nor an abstract populism that believes it can discover the...

...quest for national liberation from colonialism. As Frantz Fanon wrote in The Wretched of the Earth, "To fight for national culture means in the first place to fight for the liberation of the nation. . . . There is no other fight for culture which can develop apart from the popular struggle" (233)....

...the level on which he wishes to fight or the sector where he decides to give battle for his nation. To fight for national culture means in the first place...which can develop apart from the popular struggle. To take an example: all those men and women who are fighting with their bare hands against French colonialism...

...discovering and making of sides, is equally important for Frantz Fanon, who points out, in other terms, that "There is no other fight for culture which can develop apart from the popular struggle" (233). To illustrate what we mean, let's take as an example the analysis of racism in North America....

...resistance movements as central to building non-violent, communal and spiritual approaches to liberation as "there is no other fight for culture which can develop apart from the popular struggle" (Fanon, 1963, p. 233). Spirituality and Resistance Drawing on the colonizers' psyche, Cesaire describes...

...states, newly delivered from the chains of colonialism. Fanon (1968:233) proclaimed that "to fight 127 for national culture means in the first place to fight...keystone which makes the building of a culture possible." This phase of optimistic nation-building was enacted as the work of national coalition governments,...