Banca de DEFESA: CLEITON DE ARAGÃO ALVES

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STUDENT : CLEITON DE ARAGÃO ALVES
DATE: 09/07/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: PPGF
TITLE:

From Colonial Violence to De-alienation: Subjectivity and Sociogenic Fracture in Frantz Fanon

KEY WORDS:

Fanon; colonial violence; alienation; subjectivity; sociogeny. 

PAGES: 121
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates the articulation between violence, alienation, and subjectivity in the thought of Frantz Fanon (2020; 2022), with particular emphasis on the political implications developed in The Wretched of the Earth and their relation to the question of subjectivity as examined in Black Skin, White Masks. The central problem consists in understanding how colonial violence, both in its objective and subjective dimensions, produces a specific fracture in the constitution of the colonized subject, and under what conditions Fanonian desalienation can be conceived as an effective rupture with the structure that generated such a fracture. The dissertation advances the hypothesis that this rupture articulates, in an inseparable manner, the subjective transformation of the colonized and the refusal of the order that constituted him as such, without implying either a return to a precolonial essence or a symmetrical inversion of positions within the same colonial matrix. The operative concept through which this hypothesis is developed is that of sociogenic fracture, a category used to describe the historical process by which colonization inscribes a division within the subjectivity of the colonized, a division whose overcoming requires the practical and material transformation of the social conditions that produced it. Three auxiliary categories formulated throughout the study are articulated to this hypothesis: negogeny, critical torsion, and ontological resistance through negation. The analytical approach combines an immanent reading of Fanon's major works with a critical engagement with the specialized literature, drawing on the contributions of Faustino (2018a; 2021), Gordon (2015), Wynter (2001), Sekyi-Otu (1996), Dussel (1993), Carneiro (2023), Sodré (2017), and Mbembe (2018; 2022), among others. The dissertation is structured into two chapters. The first establishes the conceptual foundations of the problem and examines the objective dimension of colonial violence through The Wretched of the Earth, engaging with the spatial structure of the colonial world, the Hegelian dialectic of recognition, the zone of nonbeing, and liberatory violence as a practice of decolonization. The second chapter, devoted to Black Skin, White Masks, examines the subjective dimension of this violence through five analytical movements, ranging from the hypothesis of sociogenic fracture to desalienation as a demand for rupture. The study contributes to a more rigorous understanding of alienation in its specifically colonial form by rejecting both culturalist interpretations that reduce colonization to a problem of representation and economic reductionist approaches that dissolve racial specificity into class determinations. In their place, it proposes a reading of Fanon (2020; 2022) as a philosopher whose work articulates, simultaneously, the material and subjective dimensions of colonialism. 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2358689 - LEONARDO JORGE DA HORA PEREIRA
Interno - 2335536 - VINICIUS DOS SANTOS
Externa à Instituição - MARIANA FIDELIS JERÔNIMO DE OLIVEIRA - IFRN