Nigel C. Gibson

Fanon

A Reader

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period. A veritable "intellect on fire," Fanon was a radical thinker with original theories on race, revolution, violence, identity and agency.

This book is an excellent introduction to the ideas and legacy of Fanon. Gibson explores him as a truly complex character in the context of his time and beyond. He argues that for Fanon, theory has a practical task to help change the world. Thus Fanon s "untidy dialectic," Gibson contends, is a philosophy of liberation that includes cultural and historical issues and visions of a future society. In a profoundly political sense, Gibson asks us to reevaluate Fanon s contribution as a critic of modernity and reassess in a new light notions of consciousness, humanism, and social change.

This is a fascinating study that will interest undergraduates and above in postcolonial studies, literary theory, cultural studies, sociology, politics, and social and political theory, as well as general readers.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Key Contemporary Thinkers
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2003
• Deutsch, Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 162mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780745622613
• ISBN-10: 0745622615
• Artikelnr.: 14738471

Autorenporträt

Nigel C. Gibson is Director of the Honors Program at Emerson College, Boston, and a research associate in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University and the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.
Abbreviations for Fanon's Works.
Introduction.
1. The Racial Gaze: Black Slave, White Master.
2. Psychoanalysis and the Black's Inferiority Complex.
3. Negritude and the Descent into a "Real Hell".
4. Becoming Algerian.
5. Violent Concerns.
6. Radical Mutations: Toward a Fighting Culture.
7. Crossing the Dividing Line: Spontaneity and Organization.
8. Nationalism and a New Humanism.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index