From Hegel to Postcolonialism: Paradoxes of Center and Periphery in the "African" Prefaces by Jean-Paul Sartre
2022
Abstrakt
In the years 1940-1960, Jean-Paul Sartre officially supported by the authority of his prefaces three works anticipating current postcolonial studies: Anthology of the New Black and Malagasy Poetry in French by Léopold Sédar Senghor (1948), The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi (1957) and The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (1961). The article analyzes these texts through the "center / periphery" dynamic which is relayed, in the second part of our text, by the master-slave dialectic.
After having recapitulated the Sartrean interpretation of this concept launched by Hegel, we outline the future of the dialectic on the African continent.