"We should cut Fanon a little slack here when he reads literature as
evidence, understand that he is reading the text as mind, as he would in
his practice read minds as text. We cannot imitate him absolutely. The
mind doctor does it one-on-one, not just in groups, and therefore when
Fanon says that it is not just individual but social, we have to believe
him more. What I am trying to do is to talk about subject position. And
when he reads literature as evidence, we have to understand his
protocols and not imitate him, as socialism attempted to imitate Marx."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Readings.
