| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 276 pages) |
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Abbreviations for Works by Frantz Fanon -- 1. Rereading Fanon. Postindependence Hermeneutics. Narrative as Dialectic. Dialectic as Politics -- 2. Immediate Knowledge. History as Antidialectic. Aristotle as Witness. Antidialectic as Space. Struggles over the "Dividing Line" The Dividing Line as the "Divided Line"? -- 3. Bewildering Enlightenment. Narrative, Catastasis, Dialectic. "The Weary Road toward Rational Knowledge" Baneful Inconsequence? The Life History of the "National Bourgeoisie" -- 4. Political Judgment. The Ambiguity of Exclusion. Reprieve of Prodigal Reason. Allegories of Appropriation. Woman the Measure -- Epilogue: The Record and the Vision |
| Summary |
In this reinterpretation of Franz Fanon, Ato Sekyi-Otu ensures the reader's awareness of the formal complexity of Fanon's work. Fanon advocated national liberation and resistance to colonial power in his books, such as "Black Skin, White Masks" |
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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 . But the controversies attending his life--and death, which some ascribed to the CIA--are small in comparison to those surrounding his work. Where admirers and detractors alike have seen his ideas as an incoherent mixture of Existentialism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis, Sekyi-Otu restores order to Fanon's oeuvre by reading it as one dramatic dialectical narrative. Fanon's Dialectic of Experience invites us to see Fanon as a dramatist enacting a movement of experience--the drama of social agents in the colonial context and its aftermath--in a manner idiosyncratically patterned on the narrative structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit . By recognizing the centrality of experience to Fanon's work, Sekyi-Otu allows us to comprehend this much misunderstood figure within the tradition of political philosophy from Aristotle to Arendt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961.
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Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961 fast |
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Fanon, Frantz. swd |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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Sozialphilosophie
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Anti-imperialisme.
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Dialectiek.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674043442 |
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0674043448 |
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