{"id":67,"date":"2015-09-24T17:19:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2015-09-24T17:19:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:19:58","slug":"the-colonial-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"the colonial &#8220;mother&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the colonial mother protects\u00a0her chld<br \/>\nfrom\u00a0itself\/<br \/>\nfrom itz ego\/\u00a0n from itz physiology<br \/>\nitz biology<br \/>\nn itz own\u00a0unhappiness whch is\/<br \/>\nitz very\u00a0essence<\/p>\n<p>(from Frantz Fanon&#8217;s &#8216;On National Culture&#8217; pg. 211)<\/p>\n<p>This quote was emotionally difficult to read&#8211; over and over again. It was difficult\u00a0to parse out its components\u00a0and to make it dance and to make it move because of the brevity of the trauma it alludes to. The quote describes a total manipulation&#8211; of identity, biology, physiology, the ego, and so on. It personifies and personalizes one&#8217;s relationship to colonialism.\u00a0Without apology, this relationship is coded as emotionally, spiritually, and physically abusive.\u00a0The colonial mother &#8220;cares for&#8221; her child by stripping the child of its identity and context, and thus its essence. This quote is extremely powerful in its ability to communicate what the relationship is not\u00a0by listing exactly what is happening inside of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the colonial mother protects\u00a0her chld from\u00a0itself\/ from itz ego\/\u00a0n from itz physiology itz biology n itz own\u00a0unhappiness whch is\/ itz very\u00a0essence (from Frantz Fanon&#8217;s &#8216;On National Culture&#8217; pg. 211) This quote was emotionally difficult to read&#8211; over and over again. It was difficult\u00a0to parse out its components\u00a0and to make it dance and to make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogposts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}