1. David Scott, Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), 201.
2. Pal Ahluwalia, Out of Africa: Post-structuralism’s Colonial Roots (New York: Routledge, 2010), 55.
3. Ahluwalia, Out of Africa, 56. See also Robert Young, Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001). As Young explains, although Fanon “took no part in the FLN military campaigns, apart from organizing a new supply route through Mali in 1960,” he did “play a significant part in the international political campaigns which the FLN, more than the French themselves, realized was of almost equal significance to the physical struggle” (ibid., 277).
4. Ahluwalia, Out of Africa, 57. For a quite different reading of Fanon’s identification with Algeria, see Albert Memmi, “La vie impossible de Frantz Fanon,” Esprit 39 (1971), 248–73. Memmi interprets Fanon’s association and attempt to become Algerian as part of his failure to accept and to return to his West Indian roots. “Son vrai problème en vérité n’était ni comment être français ni comment être algérien, mais comment être antillais” (272) (In reality, his true problem was neither how to be French, nor how to be Algerian, but rather how to be Antillean [my translation]).
5. Abdul JanMohamed, “Worldliness-without-World, Homelessness-as-Home: Toward a Definition of the Specular Border Intellectual,” in Edward Said: A Critical Reader, ed. Michael Sprinker (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), 97.