Gibson Fanon

The Postcolonial Imagination
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5095-2675-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Key Contemporary Thinkers

Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerianrevolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most importantand controversial thinkers of the postwar period. A veritable"intellect on fire," Fanon was a radical thinker withoriginal theories on race, revolution, violence, identity andagency.
This book is an excellent introduction to the ideas and legacyof Fanon. Gibson explores him as a truly complex character in thecontext of his time and beyond. He argues that for Fanon, theoryhas a practical task to help change the world. Thus Fanon's"untidy dialectic," Gibson contends, is a philosophy ofliberation that includes cultural and historical issues and visionsof a future society. In a profoundly political sense, Gibson asksus to reevaluate Fanon's contribution as a critic ofmodernity and reassess in a new light notions of consciousness,humanism, and social change.
This is a fascinating study that will interest undergraduatesand above in postcolonial studies, literary theory, culturalstudies, sociology, politics, and social and political theory, aswell as general readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, Nigel C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.