The Tower of the Past in Polybius, Bede, and Fanon

IF 0.6 1区历史学 0 CLASSICS

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1353/ajp.2022.0025

A. Lecznar

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Abstract

Abstract:Frantz Fanon uses the metaphor of the Tower of the Past in his conclusion to Peau noire, masques blancs (Black Skin, White Masks) to argue that racialized historical narratives alienate and imprison their readers. In the first part of this article I read excerpts from Polybius and Bede to isolate the metaphors that both authors use to describe and explain the phenomenon of empire and its impact on historical understanding. In the second part I return to Fanon, and particularly his discussion of the phrase "Our ancestors, the Gauls," to trace his critique of discourses of ancient history in the context of French colonialism.

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波利比乌斯、比德和法农的过去之塔

摘要:弗朗茨·法农在《黑皮肤，白面具》一书的结束语中以“过去之塔”为隐喻，论证了种族化的历史叙事疏离和禁锢了读者。在本文的第一部分，我阅读了波利比乌斯和比德的节选，以分离两位作者用来描述和解释帝国现象及其对历史理解的影响的隐喻。在第二部分中，我将回到法农，特别是他对“我们的祖先，高卢人”这一短语的讨论，以追溯他在法国殖民主义背景下对古代历史话语的批评。

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY CLASSICS-

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