Matthew Beaumont, a Professor of English Literature at University College London, is the author of several books for Verso, including Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London (2015), The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City (2020) and How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body (forthcoming, 2024). He is also the author of Lev Shestov: Philosopher of the Sleepless Night (2021). For Verso, he has co-authored The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009) and co-edited Restless Cities (2010).
Preface
Introduction: The Body Arrested
1. The Racialized Body: Fanon Walks with Garnette Cadogan
2. The Exploited Body: Fanon Walks with Ernst Bloch
3. The Disordered Body: Fanon Walks with Nikolaus Friedreich
4. The Paralysed Body: Fanon Walks with Peter Moss
5. The Armoured Body: Fanon Walks with Wilhelm Reich
6. The Body Transformed: Fanon Walks with Assia Djebar
Notes
Index