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Over sixty years after his death, the social philosopher and
psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) remains a towering
intellectual figure. Born in Martinique and trained as a
psychiatrist in France, Fanon rejected his French citizenship to
join the Algerian liberation movement in the 1950s. In the short
decade from 1952 to 1961 this brilliant and engaged intellectual
composed three books Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism,
and The Wretched of the Earth, which continue to spur intellectual
awakenings across the world. The rebirth of Fanonism today in
universities and the English-speaking world is a testament to his
relevance. Edited by distinguished Fanon scholar Nigel C. Gibson,
Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue, first published in 1999,
has become a classic, grounding new discussions of Fanon and
cultural, postcolonial, Africana and gender studies with earlier
African and African American dialogues. The book opens with an
authoritative biography by the Ghanaian political scientist
Emmanuel Hansen, which corrects fallacious assertions about Fanon's
life, situating him in Marxism, Negritude, Pan-Africanism, and the
historical context of postwar decolonization, specifically the
Algerian revolution. Section one is highlighted by extended
discussions of Fanon's theories on revolution and "true
liberation," including Fanon's revolutionary psychiatry by Hussein
A. Bulhan, now the President of the Frantz Fanon University, and
discussions of Fanon's dialectic of liberation by African American
theorist Tony Martin, and Marxist-Humanists, John Alan and Lou
Turner. The next section examines Fanon's re-emergence in
postcolonial studies in British and American universities with now
classic chapters by Homi K. Bhabha, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Edward
W. Said and Benita Parry. The third section, "Fanon, Gender, and
National Consciousness" includes chapters by Anne McClintock, Diana
Fuss and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting remain important to the ongoing
debates about identity and agency. This excellent collection
reflects the continuing impact of Fanon's thought on Africana
studies, feminism and sexuality studies, postcolonialism,
decolonial, and cultural studies.
The revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a foundational
figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought and practice, yet his
psychiatric work still has only been studied peripherally. That is
in part because most of his psychiatric writings have remained
untranslated. With a focus on Fanon's key psychiatry texts, Frantz
Fanon: Psychiatry and Politics considers Fanon's psychiatic
writings as materials anticipating as well as accompanying Fanon's
better known work, written between 1952 and 1961 (Black Skin, White
Masks, A Dying Colonialism, Toward the African Revolution, The
Wretched of the Earth). Both clinical and political, they draw on
another notion of psychiatry that intersects history, ethnology,
philosophy, and psychoanalysis. The authors argue that Fanon's work
inaugurates a critical ethnopsychiatry based on a new concept of
culture (anchored to historical events, particular situations, and
lived experience) and on the relationship between the psychological
and the cultural. Thus, Gibson and Beneduce contend that Fanon's
psychiatric writings also express Fanon's wish, as he puts it in
The Wretched of the Earth, to "develop a new way of thinking, not
only for us but for humanity."
Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy explores the range of
ways in which Frantz Fanon's decolonization theory can reveal new
answers to perennial philosophical questions and new paths to
social justice. The aim is to show not just that Fanon's thought
remains philosophically relevant, but that it is relevant to an
even wider range of philosophical issues than has previously been
realized. The essays in this book are written by both renowned
Fanon scholars and new scholars who are emerging as experts in
aspects of Fanonian thought as diverse as humanistic psychiatry,
the colonial roots of racial violence and marginalization, and
decolonizing possibilities in law, academia, and tourism. In
addition to examining philosophical concerns that arise from
political decolonization movements, many of the essays turn to the
discipline of philosophy itself and take up the challenge of
suggesting ways that philosophy might liberate itself from colonial
and colonizing assumptions. This collection will be useful to those
interested in political theory, feminist theory, existentialism,
phenomenology, Africana studies, and Caribbean philosophy. Its
Fanon-inspired vision of social justice is endorsed in the foreword
by his daughter, Mireille Fanon-Mendes France, a noted human rights
defender in the French-speaking world."
The revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a foundational
figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought and practice, yet his
psychiatric work still has only been studied peripherally. That is
in part because most of his psychiatric writings have remained
untranslated. With a focus on Fanon's key psychiatry texts, Frantz
Fanon: Psychiatry and Politics considers Fanon's psychiatic
writings as materials anticipating as well as accompanying Fanon's
better known work, written between 1952 and 1961 (Black Skin, White
Masks, A Dying Colonialism, Toward the African Revolution, The
Wretched of the Earth). Both clinical and political, they draw on
another notion of psychiatry that intersects history, ethnology,
philosophy, and psychoanalysis. The authors argue that Fanon's work
inaugurates a critical ethnopsychiatry based on a new concept of
culture (anchored to historical events, particular situations, and
lived experience) and on the relationship between the psychological
and the cultural. Thus, Gibson and Beneduce contend that Fanon's
psychiatric writings also express Fanon's wish, as he puts it in
The Wretched of the Earth, to "develop a new way of thinking, not
only for us but for humanity."
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.
Written by a leading Fanon scholar, and with an acute philosophical
intelligence, Fanonian Practices in South Africa is a sophisticated
attempt to examine post-apartheid South Africa through the
emancipatory lens of Frantz Fanon's revolutionary humanism. South
Africa has been widely heralded as an African success story in the
wake of the 1994 democratic elections. But in recent years the
world's media have too often carried stark images of South African
police attacking protesters or scenes of xenophobic violence. Has
post-apartheid South Africa been unable to chart a course away from
the all too familiar script of a post-colonial crisis, rooted in
the narrow nationalism and neocolonialism that Fanon so vividly
described? This is not another meditation on Fanon's continued
relevance. Instead, it is an inquiry into how Fanon, the
revolutionary, might think and act in the face of contemporary
social crises. Taking Fanon's passion for freedom and liberation
seriously, and Biko's analysis of the dangers of liberalism,
Fanonian Practices looks into the politics of the shack-dweller
movements currently gathering momentum in South Africa as important
spaces in which to think and construct a truly human post-apartheid
future.
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