"Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics draws upon Africana anticolonial philosophy-especially the work of Frantz Fanon and two of his most influential interpreters, Eldridge Cleaver and Sylvia Wynter-to develop a basic analytical model for doing anticolonial political theory. I wanted to show that there is something distinctive, something special, to be found in this tradition of thought that has not been fully appreciated by philosophers and theorists in other fields."
"The book is original and eclectic in a few ways. First, it relies on Hollywood films rather than historical and contemporary events for the content of the analysis. This approach offers both the reader and me some critical distance from our assumptions about society and our affective attachments to prevailing theories."
"Second, it draws upon Algirdas Greimas' semiotic square, a once-prominent semiotic method of analysis in literary criticism that has fallen out of favor in recent decades."
Patrick Anderson's newest book develops an anticolonial methodology for political philosophy grounded in Africana anticolonial philosophy, particularly the work of Frantz Fanon, Eldridge Cleaver, and Sylvia Wynter. Anderson argues that this philosophical tradition contains distinctive and underappreciated insights for theorists across disciplines. The work employs an original, eclectic approach using Hollywood films as analytical content rather than historical events, creating critical distance from societal assumptions and theoretical attachments. The methodology incorporates Algirdas Greimas' semiotic square, a once-prominent but recently neglected literary analysis tool, to examine anticolonial themes through cinema.
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