Frantz Fanon – An Introduction
Sociology 3, Rhodes University, 2012
Week One – Black Skin, White Masks
1.
Introduction (no compulsory reading)
2.
'The Negro & Language' (Chapter 1 from Black
Skin, White Masks)
3.
'The Fact of Blackness' (Chapter 5 from Black
Skin, White Masks)
4.
'Interview with Steve Biko', 1972 http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2011/06/interview-with-steve-biko-1972.html
Week Two – A Dying Colonialism
5.
Introduction (no compulsory reading)
6.
'Algeria Unveiled' (Chapter 1 from A Dying Colonialism)
7.
'Medicine & Colonialism' (Chapter 4 from A
Dying Colonialism)
8.
Michael Neocosmos, From people's politics to
state politics: aspects of national liberation in South Africa 1984-1994,
1994
Film: The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Week Three – The Wretched of the Earth
9.
Introduction (no compulsory reading)
10. 'Concerning
Violence' (Chapter 1 from The Wretched of the Earth)
11. 'The
Pitfalls of National Consciousness' (Chapter 3 from The Wretched of the Earth)
12. 'Interview
with S'bu Zikode', 2009
http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2011/08/to-resist-all-degradations-divisions.html
Film: Dear Mandela (2011)
Recommended Reading:
Short Essays & Talks
Nigel Gibson, Living Fanon: The Rationality of
Revolt, 2011
Lewis Gordon, Remembering Fanon: Setting
Forward a New Humanity, 2011
Achille Mbembe, The Year of Frantz Fanon,
2011
S'bu Zikode, Presentation at the Fanon
Colloquium, Rhodes University, 2011
Academic Articles & Book Chapters
Nigel Gibson, Black Consciousness 1977-1987;
The Dialectics of Liberation in South Africa, 1988
Nigel Gibson, What Happened to the “Promised
Land”? A Fanonian Perspective on Post-Apartheid South Africa, 2011
Lewis Gordon, Living Fanon, 2011
T. Deanen Sharpley-Whiting, Fanon, Conflicts,
Feminisms, 1988
Books
Steve Biko, I Write What I Like, 1978
Alice Cherki, Frantz Fanon: A Biography,
2000 (translated 2006)
Angela Davis, An Autobiography, 1974
Nigel Gibson, Fanon: The Post-Colonial
Imagination, 2003
Nigel Gibson, Fanonian Practices in South
Africa, 2011
Lewis Gordon, Fanon & the Crisis of
European Man, 1995
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 1952
(translated 1967)
Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 1959
(translated 1965)
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth,
1961 (translated 1963)
George Jackson, Soledad Brother, 1970
Noel Chabani Manganyi, Being-Black-in-the-World,
1973
Bloke Modisane, Blame Me on History, 1964
Michael Neocosmos, From Foreign Natives to
Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa, 2006 (Updated new edition in 2010)
Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism, 1983
Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism,
1943 (translated 1948)
Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite & Jew,
1946
Ato Sekyi-Otu, Fanon's Dialectic of Experience,
1996
T. Deanen Sharpley-Witting, Fanon:Conflicts
& Feminisms, 1998
Ineke van Kessel,
"Beyond
Our Wildest Dreams": The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of
South Africa, 2000
Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcom X,
1965
Other Material
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