FANON - A Critical Reader

ISBN-13: 9781557868961 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 368 str.

R. Gordon; Lewis R. Gordon; Renee T. White

Opis

Frantz Fanon is arguably the Developing World's greatest theoretician of philosophy and revolution. Psychiatrist, philosopher, social scientist and revolutionary, he posed a number of pressing concerns that span the scope of a number of political milieux and academic disciplines.

Spis treści

Foreword: Leonard Harris (Purdue University) & Carolyn Johnson.

Introduction.

Part I: Oppression:.

1. Fanon, Oppression and Resentment: The Black Experience in the United States: Floyd W. Hayes III (Purdue University).

2. Perspectives of Du Bois and Fanon on the Psychology of Oppression: Stanley O. Gaines, Jr.

3. Racism and Objectification: Reflections on Themes from Fanon: Richard Schitt (Brown University).

Part II: Questioning the Human Sciences:.

4. Fanon′s Body of Black Experience: Ronald A. T. Judy (University of Pittsburgh).

5. The Black and the Body Politic: Fanon′s Existential Phenomenological Critique of Psychoanalysis: Lewis R. Gordon.

6. To Cure and to Free: The Fanonian Project of Decolonized Psychiatry: Francoise Verges (UC Berkeley).

7. Revolutionizing Theory: Sociological Dimensions in Fanon′s Sociologie D′Une Revolution: Renee T. White (Purdue University).

Part III: Identity and the Dialectics of Recognition: .

8. Casting the Slough: Fanons New Humanism for a New Humanity: Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis).

9. Fanon, Sartre and Identity Politics: Sonia Kruks (Oberlin College).

10. The Difference Between the Hegelian and Fanonian Dialectic of Lordship and Bondage: Lou Turner.

Part IV: Fanon and the Emancipation of Women of Color: .

11. Antiblack Femininity – Mixed–Race Identity: Engaging Fanon to Reread Capecia: T. Denean Sharpley–Whiting (Purdue University).

12. Violent Women: Surging into Forbidden Quarter: Nada Elia (Western Illinois University–Macomb).

13. To Conquer the Veil: Fanon′s Continued Relevance to Algeria: Eddy Souffrant (Marquette University).

14. Invisibility and Super/Vision: Fanon on Race, Veils, and Discourses of Resistance: David Theo Goldberg (Arizona State University).

Part V: Postcolonial Dreams, Neocolonial Realities: .

15. Public (Re)Memory, Vindicating Narratives, and Troubling Beginnings: Towards a Postcolonial Psychoanalytical Theory: Maurice Stevens (Santa Cruz).

16. Fanon, African and Afro–Caribbean Philosophy: Paget Henry (Brown University).

17. Fanon and the Contemporary Discourse of African Philosophy: Tsenay Serequeberhan (Simmons College).

18. On the Misadvertures of National Consciousness: A Retrospect on Frantz Fanon′s Gift of Prophecy: Olufemi Taiwo (Loyola University, Chicago).

Part VI: Resistance and Revolutionary Violence:.

19. Jammin′ the Airwaves and Tuning Into the Revolution: The Dialectics of the Radio in L′An Cinq du la Revolution Algerienne: Nigel Gibson (Columbia University).

20. Fanon on the Role of Violence in Liberation: A Comparison to Gandhi and Mandela: Gail M. Presby (Marist College).

21. Fanon′s Tragic Revolutionary Violence: Lewis R. Gordon (Purdue University).

Afterword: Joy Ann James (University of Massachusetts & University of Colorado).

Bibliography.

O autorze

Lewis R. Gordon teaches philosophy and African American studies at Purdue University. He is author of Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences (1995) and Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (1995), as well as editor of Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy (1996) and co–editor of Black Texts and Black Textuality: Constructing and de–constructing Blackness.

T. Denean Sharpley–Whiting teaches French and African American Studies at Purdue University. She is co–editor of Spoils of War: Women, Cultures, Revolutions and author of Black Female Bodies, White Male Imaginations: Nineteenth–Century French Narratives on Black Femininity.

Renée T. White teaches sociology and African American Studies at Purdue University. She is co–editor of Black Texts and Black Textuality and Spoils of War. She is also completing her first book, New Sexual Identities: Black Teenage Women and Sex in the AIDS Era.

Blurb

The wide range of disciplines represented here enables the volume to stand as a contextualizing work in Fanon studies. It contains new original essays on Africana philosophy, the human sciences, dialectical humanism, women of color studies, neocolonial and postcolonial studies, violence, and tragedy.