Black Speaking Subjects: Frantz Fanon’s Critique of Coloniality of Language in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology

We propose that Frantz Fanon’s analysis of language develops an immanent critique Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. Fanon transforms the phenomenological method to account for Black speaking subjects’ experience through a sociogenic language. First, while French colonial has robust diachronic dimension, colonized, Creole, is relegated synchrony without diachrony, as historical past erased. Second, metropolitan intersubjectivity modelled on harmonious reciprocity and reflects continuity between family state, relations dominant subjugated subjects employ paternalism primitivism reinforce coloniality. develop notion racialized historicized language-schema capture envisage future critical phenomenologies