Thursday, 23 June 2011

Reading List for the 'Frantz Fanon Fifty Years On' Post-Graduate Course, Politics Department, Rhodes University, 2011

Compulsory Reading

·         Alice Cherki Frantz Fanon: A Portrait (2000)
·         Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
·         Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
·         Nigel Gibson Fanonian Practices in South Africa (2011)
·         Lewis Gordon Fanon and the Crisis of European Man (1995)
·         Michael Neocosmos From  'Foreign Natives' to 'Native Foreigners' Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa (2010)
·         T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms (1999)
·         Ato Sekyi-Otu Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience (1996)


Recommended Reading 

·         Steve Biko I Write What I Like (1978)
·         Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan Frantz Fanon And The Psychology Of Oppression (1985)
·         Patrick Ehlen Frantz Fanon a Spiritual Biography (2000)
·         Aimé Césaire Notebook of a Return to my Native Land (1939)
·         Aimé Césaire Discourse on Colonialism (1955)
·         Frantz Fanon A Dying Colonialism (1959)
·         Frantz Fanon Towards the African Revolution (1969)
·         Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)
·         Irène Gendzier Frantz Fanon (1973)
·         Nigel Gibson (ed). Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Legacy (1999)
·         Nigel Gibson Frantz Fanon: The Post-Colonial Imagination (2003)
·         Nigel Gibson (ed.) Living Fanon (2011)
·         Lewis Gordon Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (1995)
·         Lewis Gordon (ed. with T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Renée T. White)  Fanon: A Critical Reader (1996)
·         Lewis Gordon (ed.) Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy (1997)
·         Lewis Gordon Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought (2000)
·         Paget Henry Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (2000
·         George Jackson Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970)
·         Moeletsi Mbeki Architects of Poverty (2009)
·         Kristin Ross Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995)
·         Kristin Ross May ’68 and its Afterlives (2002)
·         James Yaki Sales Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth (2010)
·         Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness (1943)
·         Jean-Paul Sartre Anti-Semite and Jew (1943)