This book focuses on a reading of Frantz Fanon s work and life, asking how the work of a revolutionary writer such as Fanon might be best appropriated for contemporary political and cultural issues. Separate chapters introduce Fanon s life and examine the question of Fanon as our contemporary; review the field of Fanon studies that has grown up around his work; bring Fanon into conversation with the critical contemporary figures Edward Said, Michel Foucault, Jamaica Kincaid, and Paul Gilroy; and turn to Fanon s work to think through the contemporary popular uprisings that have come to be...
This book focuses on a reading of Frantz Fanon s work and life, asking how the work of a revolutionary writer such as Fanon might be best appropriated...
