New Preface to the Arabic translation of 'Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination'

New Preface to the Arabic translation of Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination

by Nigel Gibson

It is with great pleasure and a sense of great honor that I write this introduction to the Arabic translation of Fanon: A Postcolonial Imagination.  I am particularly indebted to Dr. Fayiz Suyyagh and all those associated with the Tarjuman Unit for this opportunity; I am also cognizant of the historic context of this translation, the massive and continuing revolts popularly known as the “Arab Spring” which have helped generate renewed interest in Frantz Fanon’s ideas.

Frantz Fanon – A Bibliography Compiled by Bulelwa Mafu

Books by Frantz Fanon

1. Fanon, F. 1952, 1967. Black Skin, White Mask. Tr. Charles Lam Markmann. New York: Grove Press.
2. Fanon, F. 1959, 1965. A Dying Colonialism. Tr. Haakon Chevalier. New York: Grove Press
3. Fanon, F. 1961, 1963. The Wretched of the Earth. Tr. Constance Farrington. New York: Grove Weidenfeld.
4. Fanon, F. 1964. 1969. Toward the African Revolution. Tr. by Haakon Chavalier: New York, Grove Press.

Fanonian Practices in South Africa by Nigel Gibson

South Africa has been widely heralded as an African success story in the wake of the 1994 democratic elections. But in recent years the world’s media have too often carried stark images of South African police attacking protestors or scenes of xenophobic violence. Has post-apartheid South Africa been unable to chart a course away from the all too familiar script of a postcolonial crisis, rooted in the narrow nationalism and neocolonialism that Fanon so vividly described? This is not another meditation on Fanon’s continued relevance. Instead, it is an inquiry into how Fanon, the revolutionary, might think and act in the face of contemporary social crises.

Fanon's Dialectic of Experience by Ato Sekyi-Otu

With the flowering of postcolonialism, we return to Frantz Fanon, a leading theorist of the struggle against colonialism. In this thorough reinterpretation of Fanon's texts, Ato Sekyi-Otu ensures that we return to him fully aware of the unsuspected formal complexity and substantive richness of his work. A Caribbean psychiatrist trained in France after World War II and an eloquent observer of the effects of French colonialism on its subjects from Algeria to Indochina, Fanon was a controversial figure--advocating national liberation and resistance to colonial power in his bestsellers, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth.

Fanon and the Crisis of European Man by Lewis R. Gordon

As the first book to analyze the work of Fanon as an existential-phenomenological critic of the human sciences and liberation philosopher, Gordon deploys Fanon's work to illuminate how the "bad faith" of European science and civilization have philosophically stymied the project of liberation. Fanon's body of work serves as a critique of European science and society, and shows the ways in which the project of "truth" is compromised by Eurocentric artificially narrowed scope of humanity—a circumstance to which he refers as the crisis of European Man.

Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression, by Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan

Few human encounters are exempt from oppression of one kind or another. Whether this oppression is based on race, national origin, class, gender, age, religious belief, political stance, or physical handicap, each of us, depending on circumstance, becomes either victim or perpetrator of this condition.

Illuminating and reinterpreting the work of the revolutionary black psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, Bulhan focuses on the psychology of racism from historical and contemporary perspectives. In accordance with the Fanonian outlook, the author's writing is neither dispassionate nor neutral; rather, he comes to close grips with the subject, bringing new life to Fanon's work and suggesting alternative priorities and orientations to establishment psychology. In addition, Bulhan offers new directions for social reconstruction and self-reconstitution.

Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms, by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms represents a bold examination of previous feminist criticisms of Fanon and argues that Fanon's writings on women and resistance provide the formative kernels of a liberating praxis for women existing under colonial and neocolonial oppression.

Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination, by Nigel Gibson

"Caricatured as a mindless apostle of violence, Fanon emerges in Nigel Gibson's rigorous and subtle analysis as a major humanistic thinker about injustice, a serious critic of nationalism and, for the first time, as an impressively profound philosopher of modern post-colonial politics and culture." Edward W. Said, Columbia University 

"This definitive interpretation of Fanon brilliantly touches the heart. Gibson presents a compelling and engaging analysis of Fanon's original theory of the racial gaze, of revolution, and of Fanon's complex theory of violence. All the perennial themes of political theory are masterfully presented in this major book. Readers will feel morally civilized after they read it." Teodros Kiros, Harvard University 

Fanon: A Critical Reader, edited by Lewis Gordon, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Renée T. White

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.

James Yaki Sayles 'Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth'

Imprisoned Intellectual: A Review of "Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth"

by Dan Berger, Left Turn

MEDITATIONS ON FRANTZ FANON’S WRETCHED OF THE EARTH BY JAMES YAKI SAYLES
Kersplebedeb and Spear and Shield Publications, 2010

For more than twenty years, James Yaki Sayles (also known as Atiba Shanna) was one of the most profound theorists writing from within US prisons. Yaki turned his decades of confinement into a time to theorize and a place to strategize, working to maintain connections between what was happening inside prisons and what was happening outside of them.

Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue, edited by Nigel Gibson

French West Indian psychoanalyst & social philosopher Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) rejected his French citizenship & became a strong advocate of the Algerian liberation movement in the 1950s. A brilliant scholar who developed the theory that some neuroses are socially generated, Fanon's revolutionary works The Wretched of the Earth, Toward the African Revolution, & Black Skin White Masks founded an African intellectual awakening. The rebirth of Fanonism today in universities & the English speaking world is a testament to his relevance.

Nigel Gibson: Living Fanon - Global Perspectives

The Martiniquean-born, French-educated, Algerian revolutionary Frantz Fanon has influenced generations of activists and scholars. Nearly fifty years after his untimely death (in 1961), Fanon’s life’s work continues to be debated and discussed around the world. Over the past five years, for example, new translations and editions of his writings have appeared in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. This book is an event: an international, interdisciplinary collection of debates and interventions by leading scholars and intellectuals from Africa, Europe, and the United States.