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CHAIR'S STATEMENT FACULTY GRADUATE STUDENTS COLLOQUIUM CALENDAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM GRADUATE PROGRAM GRADUATE PLACEMENT MASTER SCHEDULE UNDERGRADUATE BULLETIN GRADUATE BULLETIN ACADEMIC CALENDARS USC LIBRARIES CAS COMPUTING & IT USC COMPUTER SERVICES ABOUT COLUMBIA SC RESTRICTED ACCESS: Faculty | Graduate Students Search USC   THIS SITE		COLLOQUIA & CONFERENCES THE PLACE WHERE LIFE HIDES AWAY: MERLEAU-PONTY, FANON, AND THE LOCATION OF BODILY BEING   Gayle Salamon University of California, Berkeley   February 21, 2005 Monday, 4:00pm-6:00pm BA (Close/Hipp) 436   The paper offers readings from Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception and Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks to argue that an experience of bodily interiority is vital to subjectivity, and that this phenomenological relation to one's own body is structured by gender and by race in unexpected ways. Merleau-Ponty suggests that the ability to relate to others, the capacity to have a world, has as its necessary condition its converse, the ability to submerge oneself in what he terms the "anonymous life" of the body. Fanon shows that access to this "anonymous life" is conditioned by the structures of racialization. I argue that the construction of bodily interiority must be understood as an achievement which is conditioned by both race and gender.
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