Post-colonial study on The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon And The Occidentalized by Jalal Al-e Ahmad

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, an essayist from Martinique, provides the possibility of studying the psychological effects on colonized nations. On the other hand, the Iranian author, Jalal Al-e Ahmad who did not however live under a colonial system, presents the colonialism in the form of a cultural imperialism in his book The Occidentalized. A comparative analysis on both works proves a common approach to colonialism, post-colonialism and occidentalized between the both authors. The objective of the current article is, firstly, to review the history of colonization and occidentalization. In the following, based on the ideas of postcolonial and comparative literature theorists such as Edward Saïd and Jean-Marc Moura, the sociocultural contexts of the books will be analytically studied to present the impacts of colonialism and occidentalized on the culture and the literature of a society. This study will study and compare the specific approaches and solutions of Farntz Fanon and Al-e Ahmad to overcome these impacts.