From Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth The town belongingto the colonized people, or at least…
The passage describes degradation within a segregated colonial order, supporting 1 and 3 in a broad sense of apartheid. Strictly, it does not specify South Africa or…
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From Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth
The town belongingto the colonized
people, or at least the native town, the
negro village, the medina, the reservation,
is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of
evil repute. They are born there, it matters
little where or how; they die there, it
matters not where, nor how. The native
town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of
meat, of shoes, of coal, of light. The native
town is a crouching village, town on its
knees, a town wallowing in the mire. The
look that the native turns on the settler is a
look of lust, of envy…. The colonized man
is an envious man. And this the settler
knows very well… It is true, for there is
no native who does not dream atleast once
a day of setting himself up in the settler’s
place.
(From Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of
The Earth)
To Frantz Fanon, the ‘Negro’ village
is
1. the worst face of apartheid
2. a protected area
3. a place of moral and physical
degradation
4. a special village with its own
amenities.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer A
The passage describes degradation within a segregated colonial order, supporting 1 and 3 in a broad sense of apartheid. Strictly, it does not specify South Africa or formally name apartheid, so “only 3” is also defensible if reading is confined to explicit claims. The protected-area and amenities descriptions contradict the deprivation.
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