Rethinking Fanon
The Continuing Dialogue- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2022
Summary
Over sixty years after his death, the social philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) remains a towering intellectual figure. Born in Martinique and trained as a psychiatrist in France, Fanon rejected his French citizenship to join the Algerian liberation movement in the 1950s. In the short decade from 1952 to 1961 this brilliant and engaged intellectual composed three books Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism, and The Wretched of the Earth, which continue to spur intellectual awakenings across the world.
The rebirth of Fanonism today in universities and the English-speaking world is a testament to his relevance. Edited by distinguished Fanon scholar Nigel C. Gibson, Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue, first published in 1999, has become a classic, grounding new discussions of Fanon and cultural, postcolonial, Africana and gender studies with earlier African and African American dialogues. The bookopens with an authoritative biography by the Ghanaian political scientist Emmanuel Hansen, which corrects fallacious assertions about Fanon's life, situating him in Marxism, Negritude, Pan-Africanism, and the historical context of postwar decolonization, specifically the Algerian revolution. Section one is highlighted by extended discussions of Fanon's theories on revolution and "true liberation," including Fanon’s revolutionary psychiatry by Hussein A. Bulhan, now the President of the Frantz Fanon University, and discussions of Fanon’s dialectic of liberation by African American theorist Tony Martin, and Marxist-Humanists, John Alan and Lou Turner. The next section examines Fanon's re-emergence in postcolonial studies in British and American universities with now classic chapters by Homi K. Bhabha, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Edward W. Said and Benita Parry. The third section, “Fanon, Gender, and National Consciousness” includes chapters by Anne McClintock, Diana Fuss and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting remain important to the ongoing debates about identity and agency. This excellent collection reflects the continuing impact of Fanon's thought on Africana studies, feminism and sexuality studies, postcolonialism, decolonial, and cultural studies.
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Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 2/2022
- Copyright Year
- 2022
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-5381-7249-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-5381-7250-6
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 466
- Product Type
- Monograph
Table of contents
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 46
- 1. Frantz Fanon: Portrait of a Revolutionary No access
- 2. Rescuing Fanon from the Critics No access
- 3. Frantz Fanon, World Revolutionary No access
- 4. Fanon as a Democratic Theorist No access
- 5. Revolutionary Psychiatry of Fanon No access
- 6 Remembering Fanon: Self, Psyche, and the Colonial Condition No access
- 7. Travelling Theory Reconsidered No access
- 8. Resistance Theory/Theorizing Resistance or Two Cheers for Nativism No access
- 9. Critical Fanonism No access
- 10. Women, Nationalism, and Religion in the Algerian Liberation Struggle No access
- 11. Fanon and Gender Agency No access
- 12. Interior Colonies: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of Identification No access
- 13. Fanon's Feminist Consciousness and Algerian Women's Liberation: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism No access
- 14. Challenging the Social Order: Women's Liberation in Contemporary Algeria No access
- 15. Fanon and the FLN: Dialectics of Organization and the Algerian Revolution No access
- 16. Radical Mutations: Fanon's Untidy Dialectic of History No access
- Bibliography No access Pages 447 - 463
- About the Contributors No access Pages 464 - 466
