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Whither Fanon? - Studies in the Blackness of Being (Hardcover)
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Whither Fanon? - Studies in the Blackness of Being (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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Frantz Fanon may be most known for his more obviously political
writings, but in the first instance, he was a clinician, a black
Caribbean psychiatrist who had the improbable task of treating
disturbed and traumatized North African patients during the wars of
decolonization. Investigating and foregrounding the clinical system
that Fanon devised in an attempt to intervene against negrophobia
and anti-blackness, this book rereads his clinical and political
work together, arguing that the two are mutually imbricated. For
the first time, Fanon's therapeutic innovations are considered
along with his more overtly political and cultural writings to ask
how the crises of war affected his practice, informed his politics,
and shaped his subsequent ideas. As David Marriott suggests, this
combination of the clinical and political involves a psychopolitics
that is, by definition, complex, difficult, and perpetually
challenging. He details this psychopolitics from two points of
view, focusing first on Fanon's sociotherapy, its diagnostic
methods and concepts, and second, on Fanon's cultural theory more
generally. In our present climate of fear and terror over black
presence and the violence to which it gives rise, Whither Fanon?
reminds us of Fanon's scandalous actuality and of the continued
urgency of his message.
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