Frantz Fanon / Pramod K. Nayar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nayar, Pramod K., author.

Series:

Routledge critical thinkers.

Routledge critical thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961--Political and social views.

Fanon, Frantz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 162 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This clear, student-friendly guidebook considers Fanon's key texts and theories, looking at: postcolonial theory's appropriation of psychoanalysis; anxieties around cultural nationalisms and the rise of native consciousness; postcoloniality's relationship with violence and separatism.

Frantz Fanon has established a position as a leading anticolonial thinker, through key texts such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth . He has influenced the work of thinkers from Edward Said and Homi Bhabha to Paul Gilroy, but his complex work is often misinterpreted as an apology for violence. This clear, student-friendly guidebook considers Fanon's key texts and theories, looking at: Postcolonial theory's appropriation of psychoanalysis Anxieties around cultural nationalisms and the rise of native consciousness Postcoloniality's relationship with violence and separatism New humanism and ideas of community. Introducing the work of this controversial theorist, Pramod K. Nayar also offers alternative readings, charting Fanon's influence on postcolonial studies, literary criticism and cultural studies. Frantz Fanon has established a position as a leading anticolonial thinker, through key texts such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth . He has influenced the work of thinkers from Edward Said and Homi Bhabha to Paul Gilroy, but his complex work is often misinterpreted as an apology for violence. This clear, student-friendly guidebook considers Fanon's key texts and theories, looking at: Postcolonial theory's appropriation of psychoanalysis Anxieties around cultural nationalisms and the rise of native consciousness Postcoloniality's relationship with violence and separatism New humanism and ideas of community. Introducing the work of this controversial theorist, Pramod K. Nayar also offers alternative readings, charting Fanon's influence on postcolonial studies, literary criticism and cultural studies.

Contents:

Fanon: life in a revolution

Influences and engagements

Colonialism, race and the native psyche. Race, colonialism and identity

The black man's inferiority complex and race

The dependency complex

"Mental disorders" and colonial psychiatry

Colonialism, gender, sexuality. Colonialism and its sexual economy

Colonialism and sexual violence

Women, the anti-colonial struggle and the veil

On violence I: the destruction of selfhood. Colonial violence

Territory, geography and the violence of space

Embodied violence and the alienation of the self

Hegemony, violence and cultural trauma

On violence II: the reconstruction of selfhood. Anti-colonial struggles and instrumental violence

Absolute violence, self-realization and humanism

Decolonization. Black consciousness, negritude and national cultures

Negritude

National culture

Intellectuals, poets and the peasantry

The intellectual and the masses

The peasantry, the masses and political organization

Nationalism and its pitfalls. In the name of the nation

Fanon's critique of negritude

A new humanism? The "problem" of humanism

The liberated postcolonial

The ethics of recognition

Collective ethics

Beyond national consciousness, towards universalism

After Fanon.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-415-60296-3

0-203-07318-5

1-283-86062-7

1-135-10250-3

9780203073186

OCLC:

820736358