African Psycho and the White Tiger

African Psycho and the White Tiger

02.14.09 (12:53 am)   [edit]
The novel the white tiger was after all a great read. While I read on, what kept occurring to me was not other Indo-Anglo authors but African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou. These two authors tell almost identical stories in different locations, one in Congo and the other is India---an underclass man ending up killing his employer for it seemed the only way to overthrow the dead end of class system--- in totally different manners, so it is worth comparing the two. This is obviously the consequence, or another page, of the global narrative today. Or would it rather be put as the archetype of the universal struggle people are put through? This brought me back to Franz Fanon again. It seems the time finally caught up with Fanon's insight and theories. The mission of our time is, though, to come up with a way to be rid of the very justification of violence from his stance, if there would be any to process the revolution without it. Theoretically, though, there wouldn't.