Showing posts with label Introductions to Frantz Fanon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Introductions to Frantz Fanon. Show all posts
Friday, 7 June 2013
Monday, 13 May 2013
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
The Philosophical Revolutionary
AIJAZ AHMAD, Frontline
THE HINDU ARCHIVES
FRANTZ FANON.
THE
current year, 2012, marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Frantz
Fanon, one of the indispensable figures of the 20th century and a man of
exemplary commitments to revolutionary action and human liberation. A
thinker who offered original and lasting insights of great complexity,
he was also a physician and a psychiatrist who used his scientific
knowledge not just for professional purposes but as an instrument for
healing victims of oppression and violence.
| Frantz Fanon, who dedicated the closing years of his life to the revolution in Algeria, was a thinker of original insights and a psychiatrist who used his knowledge as an instrument for healing the victims of oppression. |
FRANTZ FANON.
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
'Fanon & Violence': A lecture by Lewis Gordon
Click here to watch this video at the Histories of Violence project.
The Histories of Violence “Fanon & Violence” lecture is provided by Professor Lewis R. Gordon (Temple University, U.S.A.). At the time of filming, Professor Gordon was the Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought. He was also Director of the Centre for Afro-Jewish Studies while a Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Professor Gordon has written many works in race theory, Africana philosophy, postcolonial phenomenology, philosophy of existence, social and political philosophy, film and literature, philosophy of education, philosophy of human sciences, and a variety of topics in the public interest. Before joining Temple, he taught at Brown University for eight years, during which the program in Afro-American Studies became the Department of Africana Studies under his leadership as chairperson. He also taught at Purdue University and Yale University, and he is Ongoing Visiting Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. Professor Gordon has presented lectures internationally, and has been a recipient of numerous awards and distinguished fellowships.
The Histories of Violence “Fanon & Violence” lecture is provided by Professor Lewis R. Gordon (Temple University, U.S.A.). At the time of filming, Professor Gordon was the Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought. He was also Director of the Centre for Afro-Jewish Studies while a Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Professor Gordon has written many works in race theory, Africana philosophy, postcolonial phenomenology, philosophy of existence, social and political philosophy, film and literature, philosophy of education, philosophy of human sciences, and a variety of topics in the public interest. Before joining Temple, he taught at Brown University for eight years, during which the program in Afro-American Studies became the Department of Africana Studies under his leadership as chairperson. He also taught at Purdue University and Yale University, and he is Ongoing Visiting Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. Professor Gordon has presented lectures internationally, and has been a recipient of numerous awards and distinguished fellowships.
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Final Year of a Life Well Lived: A Requiem for Frantz Fanon
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| Lewis Gordon |
Fanon was of the opinion that a society is most healthy when its people forego nationalism for the sake of national consciousness. When such a development arises in different ages, each generation, he contended, discovers its mission. It is difficult not to think about Fanon as one witnesses the youth who took to the streets in North Africa and the Middle East in 2010 to 2011 and achieved fragile change in some cases and the continued wrath of violent dictatorship and monarchical rule in others. The contours of debates, where super powers attempt to negotiate outcomes of protected interests, bring to the fore possibilities of radical democracy constrained by promissory notes of global capital and the potential of electronic media.
Monday, 16 April 2012
Metamorphic Thought: The Works of Frantz Fanon
by Achille Mbembe, African Studies, Vol. 71, No. 1, 22 March 2012
Fifty years ago, the Paris-based Maspero published Frantz Fanon’s last work, Les damnes de la terre, a book that achieved an almost biblical status and became a cornerstone of postcolonial thought. Last year saw the publication of Fanon’s Oeuvres by La De´couverte. This article explores the meanings of Fanon and the metamorphic nature of his thought.
We must shake off the heavy darkness in which we were plunged, and leave it behind.
(Fanon 1961:251)
Fifty years ago, the Paris-based Maspero published Frantz Fanon’s last work, Les damnes de la terre, a book that achieved an almost biblical status and became a cornerstone of postcolonial thought. Last year saw the publication of Fanon’s Oeuvres by La De´couverte. This article explores the meanings of Fanon and the metamorphic nature of his thought.
We must shake off the heavy darkness in which we were plunged, and leave it behind.
(Fanon 1961:251)
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Frantz Fanon: His Life & Work
by William Strickland, United Nations Centre Against Apartheid, 1979
I have been asked to review the life and work of Frantz Fanon as the first presentation in this programme, but before doing so I feel compelled to make a small confession. I have been studying Fanon for a number of years--principally in an effort to clarify the relevance of his theories to the black freedom movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Yet though I am on familiar terms with the material of Fanon's life, I found this seemingly simple task of biographical commentary one of the most difficult things I have ever had to do. It was difficult because it is not easy to put on paper the sense of admiration and appreciation that grows on one who is researching Fanon; a kind of unconscious kinship develops so that one begins to feel a certain. proprietary air about a man whom one has never met.
I have been asked to review the life and work of Frantz Fanon as the first presentation in this programme, but before doing so I feel compelled to make a small confession. I have been studying Fanon for a number of years--principally in an effort to clarify the relevance of his theories to the black freedom movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Yet though I am on familiar terms with the material of Fanon's life, I found this seemingly simple task of biographical commentary one of the most difficult things I have ever had to do. It was difficult because it is not easy to put on paper the sense of admiration and appreciation that grows on one who is researching Fanon; a kind of unconscious kinship develops so that one begins to feel a certain. proprietary air about a man whom one has never met.
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Frantz Fanon and Colonialism: A Psychology of Oppression
by Blake T. Hilton, Journal of Scientific Psychology, December 2011
The French psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a prominent psychological analyst of oppression during the 20th century, focusing his work predominantly on the oppression of the black Antillean as well as the Arab of Algeria. This article asserts the congruence of the psychological effects of French and U.S. colonialism, thus providing a cogent route to the application of Fanon’s theories. This article provides a breviloquent biography of Fanon’s life to afford insight to the development of his theories, and furnishes a review of his relevant literature. In an attempt to unveil the guises of oppression endured by the Native American, an historical account of distinctive illustrations of Native American oppression is conjointly incorporated. Based on Fanon’s theories, the etiology of several mental illnesses present in the modern Native American population is suggested to be unresolved grief from oppression.
The French psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a prominent psychological analyst of oppression during the 20th century, focusing his work predominantly on the oppression of the black Antillean as well as the Arab of Algeria. This article asserts the congruence of the psychological effects of French and U.S. colonialism, thus providing a cogent route to the application of Fanon’s theories. This article provides a breviloquent biography of Fanon’s life to afford insight to the development of his theories, and furnishes a review of his relevant literature. In an attempt to unveil the guises of oppression endured by the Native American, an historical account of distinctive illustrations of Native American oppression is conjointly incorporated. Based on Fanon’s theories, the etiology of several mental illnesses present in the modern Native American population is suggested to be unresolved grief from oppression.
Sunday, 11 December 2011
Frantz Fanon: Third world revolutionary
by Martin Evans, OUP Blog
Frantz Fanon died of leukaemia on 6 December 1961 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA where he had sought treatment for his cancer. At Fanon’s request, his body was returned to Algeria and buried with full military honours by the Algerian National Army of Liberation, shortly after the publication of his most influential work, The Wretched of the Earth.
Frantz Fanon died of leukaemia on 6 December 1961 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA where he had sought treatment for his cancer. At Fanon’s request, his body was returned to Algeria and buried with full military honours by the Algerian National Army of Liberation, shortly after the publication of his most influential work, The Wretched of the Earth.
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Frantz Fanon (1925 - 1961)
by Tracey Nicholls, The Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
Frantz Fanon was one of a few extraordinary thinkers supporting the decolonization struggles occurring after World War II, and he remains among the most widely read and influential of these voices. His brief life was notable both for his whole-hearted engagement in the independence struggle the Algerian people waged against France and for his astute, passionate analyses of the human impulse towards freedom in the colonial context. His written works have become central texts in Africana thought, in large part because of their attention to the roles hybridity and creolization can play in forming humanist, anti-colonial cultures. Hybridity, in particular, is seen as a counter-hegemonic opposition to colonial practices, a non-assimilationist way of building connections across cultures that Africana scholar Paget Henry argues is constitutive of Africana political philosophy.
Frantz Fanon was one of a few extraordinary thinkers supporting the decolonization struggles occurring after World War II, and he remains among the most widely read and influential of these voices. His brief life was notable both for his whole-hearted engagement in the independence struggle the Algerian people waged against France and for his astute, passionate analyses of the human impulse towards freedom in the colonial context. His written works have become central texts in Africana thought, in large part because of their attention to the roles hybridity and creolization can play in forming humanist, anti-colonial cultures. Hybridity, in particular, is seen as a counter-hegemonic opposition to colonial practices, a non-assimilationist way of building connections across cultures that Africana scholar Paget Henry argues is constitutive of Africana political philosophy.
Saturday, 27 August 2011
The Fanon Reader
This is the only Fanon reader consisting entirely of his own writings. It is a very student-friendly introduction to this influential and widely studied figure in postcolonial and cultural studies. Fanon was also a major influence on the work of Edward Said. It includes detailed bibliographies and further reading lists. The editor is uniquely qualified - Tunisian born, Algerian educated and now teaching in the UK. Frantz Fanon is now a key figure in postconial and cultural studies. Born in 1925 on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, he passionately identified with Algeria's struggle for independence against the French. With the publication of "Black Skin, White Masks" (1952) and of "The Wretched of the Earth" (1961), he became the leading voice in black liberationist writing.
Monday, 18 July 2011
Fanon for Beginners
Philosopher, psychoanalyst, politician, prophet Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was one of this century's most influential writers on race and revolution. Author Deborah Wyrick examines Fanon's influence on political practice, outlines his views on literary theory and postcolonial studies, and traces his heroic involvement in the fights for Algerian independence and African decolonization. Illustrated throughout.
The book can be downloaded in pdf here.
Saturday, 9 July 2011
Frantz Fanon: A Spiritual Biography
This brief, informative biography of the West Indian philosopher, psychiatrist, writer and Third World revolutionary explores Fanon's widespread influence on human and civil rights leaders on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1950s and `60s. Using Fanon's own writings, interviews granted by his family, and secondary sources, psychologist and poet Ehlen, a professor at the New School, paints a complete portrait of a thinker and activist driven by a deep political and philosophical commitment to freedom from colonial oppression and fascism, who was profoundly shaped by his cloistered middle-class upbringing in the French colony of Martinique and his service in WWII, for which he was awarded the coveted Croix de Guerre. As a psychiatrist, Fanon (1925-1961) became intensely interested in Marxist thought and the political plight of the oppressed in Africa and America, ultimately writing three seminal guides for those seeking social change (Black Skins, White Masks [1952], A Dying Colonialism [1959] and The Wretched of the Earth [1968]), which won him prominent friends and supporters like Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir and Richard Wright.
Thursday, 23 June 2011
UFrantz Fanon waziwa kakhulu njengomunye wezinculabuchopho zomzabalazo wenkululeko eAfrika
Mark Butler, David Ntseng & Richard Pithouse
Wazalelwa esiqhingini sase Martinique ngo1925. IMartinique yayibuswa ngaphansi kwengcindezelo yombuso waseFrance. Abantu abahlala khona kwakungabokudabuka eMartinique, kanye nabase Afrika ababelethwe ngaphansi kohlelo lokuthumba abantu base Afrika benziwe izigqila kanye nabokudabuka eNdiya ababelethelwe ukuzotshala umoba eMartinique ukuze uthunyelwe eFrance.
Wazalelwa esiqhingini sase Martinique ngo1925. IMartinique yayibuswa ngaphansi kwengcindezelo yombuso waseFrance. Abantu abahlala khona kwakungabokudabuka eMartinique, kanye nabase Afrika ababelethwe ngaphansi kohlelo lokuthumba abantu base Afrika benziwe izigqila kanye nabokudabuka eNdiya ababelethelwe ukuzotshala umoba eMartinique ukuze uthunyelwe eFrance.
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
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