Frantz Fanon, my brother : doctor, playwright, revolutionary / Joby Fanon ; translated by Daniel Nethery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fanon, Joby, 1923- author.

Contributor:

Nethery, Daniel, translator.

Series:

Critical Africana studies

Critical Africana Studies : African, African American, and Caribbean Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Studies

Standardized Title:

Frantz Fanon. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961.

Fanon, Frantz.

Intellectuals--Algeria--Biography.

Intellectuals.

Revolutionaries--Algeria--Biography.

Revolutionaries.

Psychiatrists.

Algeria.

Psychiatrists--Algeria--Biography.

Algeria--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 146 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]

Summary:

The short but remarkable life of Frantz Fanon has attracted several biographers, all of whom have relied on Fanon's older brother, Joby, for information on Fanon's early life. Dissatisfied with these portrayals, Joby decided to tell the story of his brother in his own words with a richness of detail not found in any other work. Translated into English by Daniel Nethery, this is an intimate, passionate, and very human account of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Frantz Fanon stands as one of the most uncompromising critics of racism and colonialism. His experience growing up as French colonial subject taught him to be fearless in the defense of his ideals. At the age of seventeen he left his home island of Martinique to fight in Europe against Nazi Germany. After the war he studied medicine and wrote his first book, Black Skin, White Masks. He practiced as a psychiatrist in Algeria and put his medical skills and literary talent in the service of the struggle for Algerian independence and African liberation. He died in 1961, one week after the publication of his classic text, The Wretched of the Earth. He was thirty-six years old. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Preface 1

2 Our Family 5

3 Our Youth in Fort-de-France 9

4 Our Schooling during the War 15

5 Dissidence 21

6 The Soldier 27

7 Frantz and His Family 31

8 Return to Martinique after the War 37

9 Studies in France 43

10 The Death of Our Father 47

11 A Vacation in Nantua 53

12 The Playwright 57

13 Black Skin, White Masks 63

14 The General Practitioner 67

15 Blida 73

16 Gabrielle 77

17 The First Congress of Black Writers 83

18 The Second Congress 89

19 Tunis 95

20 A Telegram 99

21 Death and Burial 103

22 Fanon and Martinique 109

23 Fanon and Humanism 119.

Notes:

Originally published as Frantz Fanon : de la Martinique à l'Algérie et à l'Afrique. Paris : Harmattan, c2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739180488

0739180487

OCLC:

880521077