A Tapestry of Black Anthropology of Freedom: Insights from James H. Cone and Frantz Fanon

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HEYTHROP JOURNAL Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI:10.1111/heyj.14259

SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai

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Abstract: What is freedom without the ability to wonder and imagine new ways of being in the world? This question is at the heart of the works and contributions of Frantz Fanon and James H. Cone in their responses to the colonialities operating in the Black world, and the appropriate response to such colonialities through the medium of strategic alliances and a theological imagination of what it means to be human that is oriented towards blackness itself. However, since blackness is a production of white gaze, it is intended to embody pathologies of dehumanisation. Fanon and Cone do not shy away from shedding light on these pathologies. However, rather than slipping into the realm of nihilism, a pneumatological turn is articulated that allows for blackness to be a medium of encountering the gift of authentic humanity that is in solidarity with God's epiphany of life in the world. Fanon's and Cone's centring of rebellion as the pathway for an embrace of an anthropology of freedom is retrieved as a way of understanding the link between hope and a rich reading of anthropology of freedom that blackness evokes.

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自由的黑人人类学挂毯——詹姆斯·H·科内和弗兰茨·法农的见解

摘要：如果没有好奇和想象世界上新生活方式的能力，什么是自由？这个问题是Frantz Fanon和James H.Cone的作品和贡献的核心，他们对在黑人世界运作的殖民主义做出了回应，并通过战略联盟和神学想象对黑人本身意味着什么做出了适当的回应。然而，由于黑色是白色凝视的产物，它旨在体现非人化的病态。Fanon和Cone并不回避揭示这些病理。然而，与其滑入虚无主义的领域，不如阐明了一种气候学的转变，它允许黑暗成为一种媒介，让人类获得真正的天赋，这与上帝对世界生命的顿悟是一致的。法农和科内将反叛作为拥抱自由人类学的途径，这是一种理解希望与黑人唤起的对自由人类学的丰富解读之间联系的方式。

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