Frantz Fanon

by Alessandrini,Anthony C.

• ISBN13: 9780415189767
• ISBN10: 0415189764
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-02-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Frantz Fanon was a fearless critic of colonialism and a key figure in Algeria's struggle for independence. Since his untimely death in 1961, Fanon's intellectual reputation has grown on the strength of influential works such asBlack Skin, White MasksandTheWretched of the Earthwith their incisive insights into issues of race and colonialism. Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectivesaddresses Fanon's extraordinary, often controversial writings, and examines the ways in which his work can shed light on contemporary issues in cultural politics. With sections addressing debates around gender and sexual politics, contemporary cultural studies, and the possibility for a new cultural politic which embraces Fanon's work, this collection offers new directions for cultural and political thought in the postcolonial era.

Author Biography

Anthony C. Alessandrini is a doctoral candidate in English and Women's Studies at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	viii
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Fanon studies, cultural studies, cultural politics	1	(18)
Anthony C. Alessandrini
Part I Re-reading Fanon's legacy	19	(68)
In the name of Algeria: Frantz Fanon and the Algerian Revolution	21	(13)
Michael Azar
The Politics of admittance: female sexual agency, miscegenation, and the formation of community in Frantz Fanon	34	(23)
Rey Chow
Fanon and Capecia	57	(18)
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Saint Fanon and ``homosexual territory''	75	(12)
Terry Goldie
Part II Fanon and/as cultural studies	87	(72)
Breaking up Fanon's voice	89	(10)
John Mowitt
Fanon and the pitfalls of cultural studies	99	(27)
Nigel Gibson
Fanon: An intervention into cultural studies	126	(20)
E. San Juan, Jr.
Fanon, trauma and cinema	146	(13)
E. Ann Kaplan
Part III Finding something different: Fanon and the future of cultural politics	159	(117)
Disavowing decolonization: Fanon, nationalism, and the question of reprsentation in postcolonial theory	161	(34)
Neil Lazarus
Busy in the ruins of a wretched phantasia	195	(24)
Kobena Mercer
Politics and pathologies: on the subject of race in psychoanalysis	219	(16)
Gwen Bergner
Terrorists and vampires: Fanon's spectral violence of decolonization	235	(23)
Samira Kawash
``I am not the slave of slavery'': the politics of reparation in (French) postslavery communities	258	(18)
Francoise Verges
Bibliography	276	(11)
Index	287