Resumen de Colonial Possessions: A Fanonian Reading of The Exorcist and its Sequels

Kevin J., Jr. Wetmore

• The Exorcist posits that its eponymous character first battled a demon in Africa. The rest of the films in the series then, echoing a strong trope in American horror, site in Africa the locus of evil. By juxtaposing these narratives with Frantz Fanon�s writings about possession in The Wretched of the Earth, one might see how colonial violence and indigenous possession belief reflect a culture in tension over the violence done to bodies and the freeing power of exorcism