Frantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical... more Frantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays, articles and notes published in this volume cover the most politically active period of his life and encapsulate the breadth, depth and urgency of his writings. In particular, they clarify and amplify his much-debated views on violent resistance.
These works provide new complexity to our understanding of Fanon and reveal just how relevant his thinking is to the contemporary world and how important his ideas are to changing it.
Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dial... more Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for theatre developed during the years that he was studying medicine, and in 1949 he wrote the plays The Drowning Eye (L'Œil se noie), and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles). This first English translation of the works gives us a Fanon at his most lyrical, experimental and provocative.
Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and a... more Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from 1951 to 1960 in tandem with his political work and reveals much about how Fanon's thought developed, showing that, for him, psychiatry was part of a much wider socio-political struggle. His political, revolutionary and literary lives should not then be separated from the psychiatric practice and writings that shaped his thinking about oppression, alienation and the search for freedom.
Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for successive generations of intellectuals-for anti-colonial and civil rights activists in the 60s and 70s, for those working in postcolonial studies from the 80s to the present day, and currently for specialists of French and North African history, of colonial psychiatry, and ethnopsychiatry, and for all those who work with conflicts of identity in postcolonial societies.
Frantz Fanon is regarded as a foundational thinker of Postcolonial Studies, bringing together the analysis of colonialism from an objective, historical perspective and an interrogation of its subjective effects on colonizer and colonized alike. This book furthers his powerful intervention into how we think about identity, race and activism and provides a unique insight into Fanon's literary works and psychiatric, philosophical and historical theories.
Alienation and Freedom offers a remarkable opportunity to discover a range of unknown literary, psychiatric, and political works by Fanon, many of which were never published before, and throws new light on the thinking of a major 20th-century philosopher whose disruptive and moving work continues to shape how we look at the world.
Poetics of the Antilles • M o d e r n F r e n c h I d e n t i t i e s The essays collected in thi... more Poetics of the Antilles • M o d e r n F r e n c h I d e n t i t i e s The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than the origin of a process which was inseparably poetic and political. It entailed an aesthetics of dispersion or errance, rather than belonging. This volume thus questions the traditional teleological narrative of negritude as 'renaissance' or 'awakening'. A careful look at the birth of different negritude movements shows the complexity of this history and explains Fanon's philosophical and political critique of the notion. These writers' astonishingly rich production rests on original aesthetic ideas and philosophical reflections which the vagaries of history and displacement, and their comparison with major metropolitan literary movements, had masked.
Volume co-edited with Isabelle Chol
Les Espaces du livre / Spaces of the Book
Supports et acteur... more Volume co-edited with Isabelle Chol Les Espaces du livre / Spaces of the Book Supports et acteurs de la création texte / image (XXe–XXIe siècles) Materials and Agents of the Text/Image Creation (20th–21st Centuries) http://www.peterlang.com?431903
This 680 pages volume contains Fanon's unpublished or never re-published work, co-edited with Rob... more This 680 pages volume contains Fanon's unpublished or never re-published work, co-edited with Robert Young: 2 plays written by Fanon, all his psychiatric work, a number of political articles, some correspondance, an annotated catalogue of his library and hundred pages of introductions and notes. The original French edition is published by La Découverte. The English translation will be published by Bloomsbury in 2016 or early 2017.
... Kevin Nolan; Emma Wagstaff; Katherine Savage for her careful re-reading, and Tristan Palmer, ... more ... Kevin Nolan; Emma Wagstaff; Katherine Savage for her careful re-reading, and Tristan Palmer, the most patient of publishers. Page 11. Abbreviations A Thousand Plateaus (TP) (tr. Brian Massumi; London: Athlone Press, 1988) Anti-Oedipus (AO) (tr. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem ...
Special issue of Les Temps Modernes on the democratic transition in South Africa co-edited with C... more Special issue of Les Temps Modernes on the democratic transition in South Africa co-edited with Chris Alden (700 pages)
Fanon he was a member of the editorial board of that journal, created by Simone de Beauvoir, Maur... more Fanon he was a member of the editorial board of that journal, created by Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre. He organised the first meeting between Fanon, Beauvoir and Sartre in July 1961 in Rome. One of the outcomes of this ...
Comme le titre de ce dialogue l'indique, il s'agit bien géographiquement de discuter d... more Comme le titre de ce dialogue l'indique, il s'agit bien géographiquement de discuter d'Afrique(s) c'est à dire de ce pluriel hypothétique sur lequel les auteurs ne tombent jamais d'accord : l'Afrique est-elle une mosaïque géo-sociologique qui n'a fait unité que sous le regard des colonisateurs (position de Jean-Loup Amselle anthropologue africaniste), ou bien, et malgré cette histoire désastreuse, n'est-ce pas une entité culturelle à unifier politiquement car elle repose malgré tout sur une identité et sur des contenus au moins désirés, idées régulatrices, bref parce qu'elle est projet, et projet important (position de Souleymane Bachir Diagne, philosophe de la logique formelle ainsi qu'historien de la philosophie dans et en rapport à l'Islam) ? La première position reflète philosophiquement un immanentisme et un pragmatisme qui ont pour corrélat (ou visée) politique le refus du pli ou repli identitaire contemporain et de la fragmentation sociale qui en résulte. Les identités sociales, culturelles ou linguistiques, ne sont jamais que construites, qu'on les impose ou que l'on s'en pare, alors que la division socio-économique et l'opposition de classe elle, est un donné et un donné universel que la fragmentation identitaire ne sert aujourd'hui qu'à masquer. La seconde position, celle de Diagne, n'est pas exactement l'inverse de la première, mais s'en démarque clairement et c'est dans ce porte-à-faux que réside l'intérêt du livre. Il reconnaît en effet volontiers tout ce que l'idée d'une identité africaine doit à l'anthropologie coloniale. Mais il tient que l'origine et les circonstances de ce savoir-là n'impliquent pas qu'aucune identité culturelle africaine n'ait pu se développer avant, pendant, pour ou contre le regard anthropologique, ni non plus qu'une telle identité et son corrélat panafricaniste ne puisse faire l'objet d'un désir constructif et jouer ainsi un rôle important dans le cadre d'un véritable projet d'émancipation dans les situations postcoloniales.
Frantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical... more Frantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays, articles and notes published in this volume cover the most politically active period of his life and encapsulate the breadth, depth and urgency of his writings. In particular, they clarify and amplify his much-debated views on violent resistance.
These works provide new complexity to our understanding of Fanon and reveal just how relevant his thinking is to the contemporary world and how important his ideas are to changing it.
Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dial... more Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for theatre developed during the years that he was studying medicine, and in 1949 he wrote the plays The Drowning Eye (L'Œil se noie), and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles). This first English translation of the works gives us a Fanon at his most lyrical, experimental and provocative.
Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and a... more Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from 1951 to 1960 in tandem with his political work and reveals much about how Fanon's thought developed, showing that, for him, psychiatry was part of a much wider socio-political struggle. His political, revolutionary and literary lives should not then be separated from the psychiatric practice and writings that shaped his thinking about oppression, alienation and the search for freedom.
Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for successive generations of intellectuals-for anti-colonial and civil rights activists in the 60s and 70s, for those working in postcolonial studies from the 80s to the present day, and currently for specialists of French and North African history, of colonial psychiatry, and ethnopsychiatry, and for all those who work with conflicts of identity in postcolonial societies.
Frantz Fanon is regarded as a foundational thinker of Postcolonial Studies, bringing together the analysis of colonialism from an objective, historical perspective and an interrogation of its subjective effects on colonizer and colonized alike. This book furthers his powerful intervention into how we think about identity, race and activism and provides a unique insight into Fanon's literary works and psychiatric, philosophical and historical theories.
Alienation and Freedom offers a remarkable opportunity to discover a range of unknown literary, psychiatric, and political works by Fanon, many of which were never published before, and throws new light on the thinking of a major 20th-century philosopher whose disruptive and moving work continues to shape how we look at the world.
Poetics of the Antilles • M o d e r n F r e n c h I d e n t i t i e s The essays collected in thi... more Poetics of the Antilles • M o d e r n F r e n c h I d e n t i t i e s The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than the origin of a process which was inseparably poetic and political. It entailed an aesthetics of dispersion or errance, rather than belonging. This volume thus questions the traditional teleological narrative of negritude as 'renaissance' or 'awakening'. A careful look at the birth of different negritude movements shows the complexity of this history and explains Fanon's philosophical and political critique of the notion. These writers' astonishingly rich production rests on original aesthetic ideas and philosophical reflections which the vagaries of history and displacement, and their comparison with major metropolitan literary movements, had masked.
Volume co-edited with Isabelle Chol
Les Espaces du livre / Spaces of the Book
Supports et acteur... more Volume co-edited with Isabelle Chol Les Espaces du livre / Spaces of the Book Supports et acteurs de la création texte / image (XXe–XXIe siècles) Materials and Agents of the Text/Image Creation (20th–21st Centuries) http://www.peterlang.com?431903
This 680 pages volume contains Fanon's unpublished or never re-published work, co-edited with Rob... more This 680 pages volume contains Fanon's unpublished or never re-published work, co-edited with Robert Young: 2 plays written by Fanon, all his psychiatric work, a number of political articles, some correspondance, an annotated catalogue of his library and hundred pages of introductions and notes. The original French edition is published by La Découverte. The English translation will be published by Bloomsbury in 2016 or early 2017.
... Kevin Nolan; Emma Wagstaff; Katherine Savage for her careful re-reading, and Tristan Palmer, ... more ... Kevin Nolan; Emma Wagstaff; Katherine Savage for her careful re-reading, and Tristan Palmer, the most patient of publishers. Page 11. Abbreviations A Thousand Plateaus (TP) (tr. Brian Massumi; London: Athlone Press, 1988) Anti-Oedipus (AO) (tr. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem ...
Special issue of Les Temps Modernes on the democratic transition in South Africa co-edited with C... more Special issue of Les Temps Modernes on the democratic transition in South Africa co-edited with Chris Alden (700 pages)
Fanon he was a member of the editorial board of that journal, created by Simone de Beauvoir, Maur... more Fanon he was a member of the editorial board of that journal, created by Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre. He organised the first meeting between Fanon, Beauvoir and Sartre in July 1961 in Rome. One of the outcomes of this ...
Comme le titre de ce dialogue l'indique, il s'agit bien géographiquement de discuter d... more Comme le titre de ce dialogue l'indique, il s'agit bien géographiquement de discuter d'Afrique(s) c'est à dire de ce pluriel hypothétique sur lequel les auteurs ne tombent jamais d'accord : l'Afrique est-elle une mosaïque géo-sociologique qui n'a fait unité que sous le regard des colonisateurs (position de Jean-Loup Amselle anthropologue africaniste), ou bien, et malgré cette histoire désastreuse, n'est-ce pas une entité culturelle à unifier politiquement car elle repose malgré tout sur une identité et sur des contenus au moins désirés, idées régulatrices, bref parce qu'elle est projet, et projet important (position de Souleymane Bachir Diagne, philosophe de la logique formelle ainsi qu'historien de la philosophie dans et en rapport à l'Islam) ? La première position reflète philosophiquement un immanentisme et un pragmatisme qui ont pour corrélat (ou visée) politique le refus du pli ou repli identitaire contemporain et de la fragmentation sociale qui en résulte. Les identités sociales, culturelles ou linguistiques, ne sont jamais que construites, qu'on les impose ou que l'on s'en pare, alors que la division socio-économique et l'opposition de classe elle, est un donné et un donné universel que la fragmentation identitaire ne sert aujourd'hui qu'à masquer. La seconde position, celle de Diagne, n'est pas exactement l'inverse de la première, mais s'en démarque clairement et c'est dans ce porte-à-faux que réside l'intérêt du livre. Il reconnaît en effet volontiers tout ce que l'idée d'une identité africaine doit à l'anthropologie coloniale. Mais il tient que l'origine et les circonstances de ce savoir-là n'impliquent pas qu'aucune identité culturelle africaine n'ait pu se développer avant, pendant, pour ou contre le regard anthropologique, ni non plus qu'une telle identité et son corrélat panafricaniste ne puisse faire l'objet d'un désir constructif et jouer ainsi un rôle important dans le cadre d'un véritable projet d'émancipation dans les situations postcoloniales.
Mon ultime prie`re: O mon corps, fais de moi toujours un homme qui interroge! (Fanon 1971: 188) P... more Mon ultime prie`re: O mon corps, fais de moi toujours un homme qui interroge! (Fanon 1971: 188) PEAU NOIRE, MASQUES BLANCS ends on the enigmatic note of a prayer to the body. Fanon does not simply wish to be a perpetual questioner if he had, he would have ...
Our prices are recommended retail prices and are exclusive of shipping costs. We reserve the righ... more Our prices are recommended retail prices and are exclusive of shipping costs. We reserve the right to alter prices. We supply to libraries at a discount of 5%. * incl. VAT-only applies to Germany and EU customers without VAT Reg No ** incl. VAT-only applies to Austria
Revenant sur la thèse de médecine rédigée par Franz Fanon, l’auteur y décèle l’articulation profo... more Revenant sur la thèse de médecine rédigée par Franz Fanon, l’auteur y décèle l’articulation profonde de son étude des dimensions « structurelles » des maladies mentales. Celles–ci ne peuvent être comprises hors de la sociogenèse des troubles comportementaux. Un même enfermement caractérise l’asile et la colonie : après le départ des colons, celle–ci doit encore se libérer du désir d’obéir à un chef. De là les orientations prises par Fanon à Blida pour approcher les maladies mentales en Algérie et mener une approche clinique d’où serait exclue toute stigmatisation des malades.Evocando a tese de medicina escrita por Frantz Fanon, detecta–se a articulação profunda de seu estudo sobre as dimensões “estruturais” das doenças mentais, que não podem ser compreendidas fora da sociogênese dos distúrbios comportamentais. Um mesmo isolamento caracteriza o asilo psiquiátrico e a colônia: mesmo após a saída dos colonos, essa deve se libertar do desejo de obedecer a um chefe. Disso resultam as ori...
Theoricien de la liberation des peuples du Tiers-Monde, apotre de la violence comme voie de la li... more Theoricien de la liberation des peuples du Tiers-Monde, apotre de la violence comme voie de la liberation nationale, pourfendeur de l’alienation culturelle : ce sont la des cliches bien connus a propos de Fanon. Des cliches, pour certains assez sommaires, et pas toujours bienveillants. Le lecteur un tant soit peu attentif aura pu, loin de certaines caricatures, s’apercevoir a quel point un texte comme Peau noire, masque blanc developpe une philosophie de la liberte opposee a tout determinisme historique ou culturel, plutot qu’il ne fait l’apologie de l’enracinement identitaire (meme si Fanon comprend, par exemple, le besoin de la revalorisation des civilisations negro-africaines si constamment sous-estimees, ou carrement niees). La conclusion de Peau noire masque blanc nous invite a ne pas rester prisonniers des determinismes historiques ; a ne pas, face au racisme, chercher a tout prix a exhiber un certificat d’humanite que procurerait l’existence de civilisations negres, comme...
Reviewed Work: Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason by Mary Ann Caws Review by: Jean Khalfa Khalfa,... more Reviewed Work: Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason by Mary Ann Caws Review by: Jean Khalfa Khalfa, Jean. The Modern Language Review, vol. 114, no. 4, 2019, pp. 870–871. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/modelangrevi.114.4.0870.
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) is principally known as a great theoretician of race relations and decol... more Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) is principally known as a great theoretician of race relations and decolonization, in particular through the two main books he published during his lifetime Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). What is less known is that he was in parallel a pioneering psychiatrist and an early and recognized theoretician of ethnopsychiatry. A volume of about a thousand pages of texts either difficult to access or presumed lost was recently published, following more than a decade of research in archives located in different parts of the world. It reveals first the importance and originality of his thought as a scientist, and secondly the importance of this dimension of his work for the understanding of his political texts. This is shown on two points: 1) the role of violence in the decolonization process, when compared with Fanon's texts on psychiatric internment, the phenomenon of agitation and the alternative model of social therapy and 2) the use of «identity» as cultural foundation for newly decolonized states, which he strongly criticised, when compared with Fanon's systematic questioning of any personal «constitution» in his psychiatric and ethnopsychiatric work.
May ‘68 is the peak of a transformation within radical thought that followed the discovery of the... more May ‘68 is the peak of a transformation within radical thought that followed the discovery of the nature of Stalinism and the difficulties of decolonization. If it finished with a series of socioeconomic reforms, it had started as a revolutionary movement that tried to implement what Jacques Rancière referred to as a theory of subversion that could not also serve the cause of oppression. This movement was also deeply influenced by transformations in theories of alienation that started at the end of the Second World War. This is studied here in the works of writers who looked at historical alienation from the point of view of mental alienation: Frantz Fanon, Isidore Isou and the Lettrists, and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Revised version of article on psychiatry and phenomenology in _Black Skin, White Maks_ published ... more Revised version of article on psychiatry and phenomenology in _Black Skin, White Maks_ published in: _Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology_ Edited By Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, Miraj U. Desai Routledge 2021
First Goldsmiths Annual Philosophy Lecture, on the hitherto unpublished or unavailable works of... more First Goldsmiths Annual Philosophy Lecture, on the hitherto unpublished or unavailable works of Frantz Fanon.
Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT), Goldsmith, University of London
4-7pm
1 June 2018
LG02, Professor Stuart Hall Building
A. James Arnold will read from The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire (his newly published translati... more A. James Arnold will read from The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire (his newly published translation, with Clayton Eshleman) and will discuss the poet's interaction with the artist: Lam's portfolio of prints inspired Césaire to write a series of poems. This wonderful portfolio will be shown together with original texts given by Césaire to Lam. The exhibition also includes rare original material pertaining to Lam's varied literary collaborations. Our distinguished guests Eskil Lam and Dorota Dolega-Ritter (Fondation Wifredo Lam, Paris) will speak about Lam's collaboration with poets in the books on show in the Wren (Aimé Césaire, René Char, Gherasim Luca, Jean-Dominique Rey) as well as with printmakers, in particular Giorgio Upiglio. Jean Khalfa will present Frantz Fanon's newly published Alienation and Freedom which includes Fanon's theatre, long thought lost. The scenography of his first play revolved around a painting by Wifredo Lam.
Antoine Coron's book on an extraordinary collection is a remarkable resource for any study of mod... more Antoine Coron's book on an extraordinary collection is a remarkable resource for any study of modern illustrated books and livres d'artistes.
Reviewed Work: Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason by Mary Ann Caws
Review by: Jean Khalfa
Khalfa... more Reviewed Work: Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason by Mary Ann Caws Review by: Jean Khalfa
Jean Khalfa; Matisse’s Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book. By KATHRYN BROWN,, , knz... more Jean Khalfa; Matisse’s Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book. By KATHRYN BROWN,, , knz044,By KATHRYN BROWN
Review of the XXIst century catalogue of the The Koopman Collection in the Koninklijke Bibliothee... more Review of the XXIst century catalogue of the The Koopman Collection in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Hague.
John Horgan's The Undiscovered Mind is remarkable for its scope, its clarity of exposition and it... more John Horgan's The Undiscovered Mind is remarkable for its scope, its clarity of exposition and its single-minded demand for lucidity. It considers most recent developments in the attempt at producing knowledge about the mind (what it is and how it works) -and in each domain it relentlessly asks what is really meaningful or worthwhile beyond the hype which regularly accompanies new theories, more frequent in this field perhaps than in any other. This dual drive is essential to the main argument of the book. It is because there continues to be such a wide range of types and levels of explanations that the mind not only is "undiscovered", but also that the brain "defies replication, medication and explanation". Still, undiscovered but not undiscoverable, defiant of explanation but not unexplainable, the wording is important: John Horgan is careful not to directly assert the radical resistance of the mind to all explanation, medication or replication. He praises Dreyfus, for instance, for having avoided stating that no computer could ever mimic the mind. Or he ironically shows that many treatments (equally based on pharmacology and on psychotherapy) are as efficient as their corresponding placebos, that is significantly efficient. So his argument is not directly negative, but, rather, sceptical: the persistence of such undecidability within each approach and interpretation, and the resulting survival and conflict of a large number of different doctrines is a good indication that there is a resistance within the object of inquiry itself. It may not simply be that we have not found the right method or conceptual framework yet. While in his previous book, The End of Science, Horgan asserted that what is interesting in science, more than scientific revolutions, is the fact that it can end, that there are domains where our knowledge is complete -what is stated here is a structural open-endedness of our explanations of the mind (open-endedness which does not exclude circularity, as old theories resurface draped in a new jargon).
Review of Voices and Visions, the Koopman Collection and the art of the French Book (Paul van Ca... more Review of Voices and Visions, the Koopman Collection and the art of the French Book (Paul van Capelleveen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Amsterdam, 2009)
Review essay on Anna Sigrídur Arnar's The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist’s Boo... more Review essay on Anna Sigrídur Arnar's The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist’s Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture.
Politique africaine n°137 • mars 2015
Revue des livres
BOUAMAMA (Saïd)
Figures de la révolution... more Politique africaine n°137 • mars 2015 Revue des livres BOUAMAMA (Saïd) Figures de la révolution africaine, de Kenyatta à Sankara Paris, La Découverte, collection « Zones », 2014, 325 pages
Book review for The China Quarterly of
The East if Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Im... more Book review for The China Quarterly of The East if Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination by ROBESON TAJ FRAZIER Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015 ISBN 978-0-8223-5786-5
A review of :
Perpetual Motion: Studies in French Poetry from Surrealism to the Postmodern . By M... more A review of : Perpetual Motion: Studies in French Poetry from Surrealism to the Postmodern . By Michael Sheringham. (Selected Essays, 2.) Cambridge: Legenda, 2017. xvii + 379 pp., ill.
This series aims to publish monographs, editions or collections of papers based on recent researc... more This series aims to publish monographs, editions or collections of papers based on recent research into modern French literature. It welcomes contributions from academics, researchers and writers in British and Irish universities in particular. Modern French Identities focuses on the French and Francophone writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, whose formal experiments and revisions of genre have combined to create an entirely new set of literary forms, from the thematic autobiographies of Michel Leiris and Bernard Noël to the magic realism of French Caribbean writers. The idea that identities are constructed rather than found, and that the self is an area to explore rather than a given pretext, runs through much of modern French literature, from Proust, Gide, Apollinaire and Césaire to Barthes, Duras, Kristeva, Glissant, Germain and Roubaud. This series explores the turmoil in ideas and values expressed in the works of theorists like Lacan, Irigaray, Foucault, Fanon, Deleuze and Bourdieu and traces the impact of current theoretical approaches – such as gender and sexuality studies, de/coloniality, intersectionality, and ecocrit-icism – on the literary and cultural interpretation of the self. The series publishes studies of individual authors and artists, comparative studies, and interdisciplinary projects and welcomes research on autobiography, cinema, fiction, poetry and performance art and/or the intersections between them.
Chapter on Tosquelles and Fanon, in
_La Déconniatrie; Art, Exil et Psychiatrie_
Edited by Carle... more Chapter on Tosquelles and Fanon, in _La Déconniatrie; Art, Exil et Psychiatrie_ Edited by Carles Guerra and Joana Masó Arcàdia-Musée des Abattoirs, 2021 Volume published on the occasion of this exhibition : https://www.lesabattoirs.org/Expositions/la-deconniatrie/
Revised version of article on psychiatry and phenomenology in _Black Skin, White Maks_ published ... more Revised version of article on psychiatry and phenomenology in _Black Skin, White Maks_ published in: _Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology_ Edited By Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, Miraj U. Desai Routledge 2021
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These works provide new complexity to our understanding of Fanon and reveal just how relevant his thinking is to the contemporary world and how important his ideas are to changing it.
Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for successive generations of intellectuals-for anti-colonial and civil rights activists in the 60s and 70s, for those working in postcolonial studies from the 80s to the present day, and currently for specialists of French and North African history, of colonial psychiatry, and ethnopsychiatry, and for all those who work with conflicts of identity in postcolonial societies.
Frantz Fanon is regarded as a foundational thinker of Postcolonial Studies, bringing together the analysis of colonialism from an objective, historical perspective and an interrogation of its subjective effects on colonizer and colonized alike. This book furthers his powerful intervention into how we think about identity, race and activism and provides a unique insight into Fanon's literary works and psychiatric, philosophical and historical theories.
Alienation and Freedom offers a remarkable opportunity to discover a range of unknown literary, psychiatric, and political works by Fanon, many of which were never published before, and throws new light on the thinking of a major 20th-century philosopher whose disruptive and moving work continues to shape how we look at the world.
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These works provide new complexity to our understanding of Fanon and reveal just how relevant his thinking is to the contemporary world and how important his ideas are to changing it.
Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for successive generations of intellectuals-for anti-colonial and civil rights activists in the 60s and 70s, for those working in postcolonial studies from the 80s to the present day, and currently for specialists of French and North African history, of colonial psychiatry, and ethnopsychiatry, and for all those who work with conflicts of identity in postcolonial societies.
Frantz Fanon is regarded as a foundational thinker of Postcolonial Studies, bringing together the analysis of colonialism from an objective, historical perspective and an interrogation of its subjective effects on colonizer and colonized alike. This book furthers his powerful intervention into how we think about identity, race and activism and provides a unique insight into Fanon's literary works and psychiatric, philosophical and historical theories.
Alienation and Freedom offers a remarkable opportunity to discover a range of unknown literary, psychiatric, and political works by Fanon, many of which were never published before, and throws new light on the thinking of a major 20th-century philosopher whose disruptive and moving work continues to shape how we look at the world.
Les Espaces du livre / Spaces of the Book
Supports et acteurs de la création texte / image (XXe–XXIe
siècles)
Materials and Agents of the Text/Image Creation (20th–21st Centuries)
http://www.peterlang.com?431903
Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT), Goldsmith, University of London
4-7pm
1 June 2018
LG02, Professor Stuart Hall Building
Review by: Jean Khalfa
Khalfa, Jean. The Modern Language Review, vol. 114, no. 4, 2019, pp. 870–871. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/modelangrevi.114.4.0870.
Revue des livres
BOUAMAMA (Saïd)
Figures de la révolution africaine, de Kenyatta à Sankara
Paris, La Découverte, collection
« Zones », 2014, 325 pages
The East if Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination
by ROBESON TAJ FRAZIER
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015
ISBN 978-0-8223-5786-5
The film I mention in this review is here:
https://www.nfb.ca/film/they_chose_china/
Perpetual Motion: Studies in French Poetry from Surrealism to the Postmodern . By Michael Sheringham. (Selected Essays, 2.) Cambridge: Legenda, 2017. xvii + 379 pp., ill.
_La Déconniatrie; Art, Exil et Psychiatrie_
Edited by Carles Guerra and Joana Masó
Arcàdia-Musée des Abattoirs, 2021
Volume published on the occasion of this exhibition : https://www.lesabattoirs.org/Expositions/la-deconniatrie/
_Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology_
Edited By Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, Miraj U. Desai
Routledge 2021