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The following statement is given by which of the below mentioned critics?
‘I was indignant: I demanded an explanation, nothing happened. I burst apart’.

Options

A

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

B

Homi K Bhabha

C

Stuart Hall

D

Frantz fanon

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Correct Answer :

Option D

Frantz fanon

Solution :

The correct option is Frantz fanon.

Detailed Explanation:
The quote, “I was indignant: I demanded an explanation, nothing happened. I burst apart,” is from the landmark book Black Skin, White Masks (1952) written by the Martinican psychiatrist and anti-colonial writer Frantz Fanon.

In Chapter 5, titled "The Lived Experience of the Black Man" (often translated as "The Fact of Blackness"), Fanon analyzes the psychological effects of racism and colonialism. He describes the experience of being confronted by the "white gaze"—specifically recalling a moment when a white child points at him and says, "Look, a Negro!"—which shatters his subjective sense of self and reduces him to an object defined by racial stereotypes. The declaration "I burst apart" details this profound internal fragmentation and alienation, illustrating how the colonial system strips colonized individuals of their agency and unified identity.

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