Rethinking Fanon : the continuing dialogue / edited by Nigel C. Gibson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 1999.Description: 466 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1573927082 (alk. paper)
  • 1573927090 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325/.3/092 21
LOC classification:
  • JC273.F36 R47 1999
Contents:
Introduction / Nigel Gibson -- I. Politics and Revolution. 1. Frantz Fanon: Portrait of a Revolutionary / Emmanuel Hansen. 2. Rescuing Fanon from the Critics / Tony Martin. 3. Frantz Fanon, World Revolutionary / Lou Turner and John Alan. 4. Fanon as a Democratic Theorist / Hussein M. Adam. 5. Revolutionary Psychiatry of Fanon / Hussein A. Bulhan -- II. Cultural Criticism. 6. Remembering Fanon: Self, Psyche, and the Colonial Condition / Homi Bhabha. 7. Travelling Theory Reconsidered / Edward W. Said. 8. Resistance Theory/Theorizing Resistance or Two Cheers of Nativism / Benita Parry. 9. Critical Fanonism / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- III. Fanon, Gender, and National Consciousness. 10. Women, Nationalism, and Religion in the Algerian Liberation Struggle / Marie-Aimee Helie-Lucas. 11. Fanon and Gender Agency / Anne McClintock. 12. Interior Colonies: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of Identification / Diana Fuss.
13. Fanon's Feminist Consciousness and Algerian Women's Liberation: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. 14. Challenging the Social Order: Women's Liberation in Contemporary Algeria / Zouligha -- IV. Fanon's Quest for a New Humanism. 15. Fanon and the FLN: Dialectics of Organization and the Algerian Revolution / Lou Turner. 16. Radical Mutations: Fanon's Untidy Dialectic of History / Nigel Gibson.
Summary: Nearly forty years after his death, social philosopher Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) remains a towering intellectual figure. Born in Guadeloupe and trained as a psychologist in France, Fanon rejected his French citizenship to join the Algerian liberation movement in the 1950s.Summary: This collection brings together some of the most important, enduring essays written on Fanon. Included alongside biographical material are discussions of politics, philosophy, and revolution and debates about psychology, feminism, and culture. The collection reflects the continuing impact of Fanon's thought on African-American and African studies, feminism, postcolonialsim, and cultural studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-463).

Introduction / Nigel Gibson -- I. Politics and Revolution. 1. Frantz Fanon: Portrait of a Revolutionary / Emmanuel Hansen. 2. Rescuing Fanon from the Critics / Tony Martin. 3. Frantz Fanon, World Revolutionary / Lou Turner and John Alan. 4. Fanon as a Democratic Theorist / Hussein M. Adam. 5. Revolutionary Psychiatry of Fanon / Hussein A. Bulhan -- II. Cultural Criticism. 6. Remembering Fanon: Self, Psyche, and the Colonial Condition / Homi Bhabha. 7. Travelling Theory Reconsidered / Edward W. Said. 8. Resistance Theory/Theorizing Resistance or Two Cheers of Nativism / Benita Parry. 9. Critical Fanonism / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- III. Fanon, Gender, and National Consciousness. 10. Women, Nationalism, and Religion in the Algerian Liberation Struggle / Marie-Aimee Helie-Lucas. 11. Fanon and Gender Agency / Anne McClintock. 12. Interior Colonies: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of Identification / Diana Fuss.

13. Fanon's Feminist Consciousness and Algerian Women's Liberation: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. 14. Challenging the Social Order: Women's Liberation in Contemporary Algeria / Zouligha -- IV. Fanon's Quest for a New Humanism. 15. Fanon and the FLN: Dialectics of Organization and the Algerian Revolution / Lou Turner. 16. Radical Mutations: Fanon's Untidy Dialectic of History / Nigel Gibson.

Nearly forty years after his death, social philosopher Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) remains a towering intellectual figure. Born in Guadeloupe and trained as a psychologist in France, Fanon rejected his French citizenship to join the Algerian liberation movement in the 1950s.

This collection brings together some of the most important, enduring essays written on Fanon. Included alongside biographical material are discussions of politics, philosophy, and revolution and debates about psychology, feminism, and culture. The collection reflects the continuing impact of Fanon's thought on African-American and African studies, feminism, postcolonialsim, and cultural studies.

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