Fanon

A Critical Reader

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by Franz Fanon,

Edited by Lewis Gordon, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Renee T. White

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published September 1996, 350 pages, paper

ISBN 1557868964

With the development of postcolonial studies, the importance of Franz Fanon's work is acquiring a new dimension. Here, in Blackwell's Critical Reader series, a cross-disciplinary collection of critical essays examine Fanon's work. These original essays represent a wide range of issues, including African philosophy, women of color studies, dialectical humanism, neocolonial and postcolonial studies, violence and tragedy. As such, this volume will place Fanon into a broad new contextÑthe first anthology to emerge from what the editors describe as the "fifth stage" of Fanon studies.

Contents

Foreword--Leonard Harris & Carolyn Johnson

Introduction. Part I: Oppression
1. Fanon, Oppression and Resentment:The Black Experience in the United States--Floyd W. Hayes III
2. Perspectives of Du Bois and Fanon on the Psychology of Oppression--Stanley O. Gaines, Jr.
3. Racism and Objectification: Reflections on Themes from Fanon--Richard Schitt

Part II: Questioning the Human Sciences
4. Fanon´s Body of Black Experience--Ronald A. T. Judy
5. The Black and the Body Politic: Fanons Existential Phenomenological Critique of Psychanalysis--Lewis R. Gordon
6. To Cure and to Free: The Fanonian Project of Decolonized Psychiatry--Francoise Verges
7. Revolutionizing Theory: Sociological Dimensions in Fanon´s Sociologie D´Une Revolution--Renee T. White

Part III: Identity and the Dialectics of Recognition
8. Casting the Slough: Fanons New Humanism for a New Humanity--Robert Bernasconi
9. Fanon, Sartre and Identity Politics--Sonia Kruks
10.The Difference Between the Hegelian and Fanonian Dialectic of Lordship and Bondage--Lou Turner

Part IV: Fanon and the Emancipation of Women of Color
11.Antiblack Femininity - Mixed-Race Identity: Engaging Fanon to Reread Capecia--T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
12.Violent Women: Surging into Forbidden Quarter--Nada Elia
13.To Conquer the Veil: Fanon´s Continued Relevance to Algeria--Eddy Souffrant
14.Invisibility and Super/Vision: Fanon on Race, Veils, and Discourses of Resistance--David Theo Goldberg

Part V: Postcolonial Dreams, Neocolonial Realities
15.Public (Re)Memory, Vindicating Narratives, and Troubling Beginnings: Towards a Postcolonial Psychoanalytical Theory--Maurice Stevens
16.Fanon, African and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy--Paget Henry
17.Fanon and the Contemporary Discourse of African Philosophy--Tsenay Serequeberhan
18.On the Misadvertures of National Consciousness: A Retrospect on Frantz Fanons Gift of Prophecy--Olufemi Taiwo

Part VI: Resistance and Revolutionary Violence
19.Jammin´ the Airwaves and Tuning Into the Revolution: The Dialectics of the Radio in L´An Cinq du la Revolution Algerienne--Nigel Gibson
20. Fanon on the Role of Violence in Liberation: A Comparison to Gandhi and Mandela--Gail M. Presby
21. Fanon's Tragic Revolutionary Violence--Lewis R. Gordon

Afterword: Joy Ann James
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