Fanon
A Critical Reader
Blackwell Critical Reader
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.
Foreword: Leonard Harris (Purdue University) & Carolyn Johnson.
Introduction.
Part I: Oppression:.
1. Fanon, Oppression and Resentment: The Black Experience in the
United States: Floyd W. Hayes III (Purdue University).
2. Perspectives of Du Bois and Fanon on the Psychology of
Oppression: Stanley O. Gaines, Jr.
3. Racism and Objectification: Reflections on Themes from Fanon:
Richard Schitt (Brown University).
Part II: Questioning the Human Sciences:.
4. Fanon's Body of Black Experience: Ronald A. T. Judy
(University of Pittsburgh).
5. The Black and the Body Politic: Fanon's Existential
Phenomenological Critique of Psychoanalysis: Lewis R. Gordon.
6. To Cure and to Free: The Fanonian Project of Decolonized
Psychiatry: Francoise Verges (UC Berkeley).
7. Revolutionizing Theory: Sociological Dimensions in Fanon's
Sociologie D'Une Revolution: Renee T. White (Purdue
University).
Part III: Identity and the Dialectics of Recognition:
.
8. Casting the Slough: Fanons New Humanism for a New Humanity:
Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis).
9. Fanon, Sartre and Identity Politics: Sonia Kruks (Oberlin
College).
10. The Difference Between the Hegelian and Fanonian Dialectic
of Lordship and Bondage: Lou Turner.
Part IV: Fanon and the Emancipation of Women of Color:
.
11. Antiblack Femininity - Mixed-Race Identity: Engaging Fanon
to Reread Capecia: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Purdue
University).
12. Violent Women: Surging into Forbidden Quarter: Nada Elia
(Western Illinois University-Macomb).
13. To Conquer the Veil: Fanon's Continued Relevance to Algeria:
Eddy Souffrant (Marquette University).
14. Invisibility and Super/Vision: Fanon on Race, Veils, and
Discourses of Resistance: David Theo Goldberg (Arizona State
University).
Part V: Postcolonial Dreams, Neocolonial Realities: .
15. Public (Re)Memory, Vindicating Narratives, and Troubling
Beginnings: Towards a Postcolonial Psychoanalytical Theory: Maurice
Stevens (Santa Cruz).
16. Fanon, African and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy: Paget Henry
(Brown University).
17. Fanon and the Contemporary Discourse of African Philosophy:
Tsenay Serequeberhan (Simmons College).
18. On the Misadvertures of National Consciousness: A Retrospect
on Frantz Fanon's Gift of Prophecy: Olufemi Taiwo (Loyola
University, Chicago).
Part VI: Resistance and Revolutionary Violence:.
19. Jammin' the Airwaves and Tuning Into the Revolution: The
Dialectics of the Radio in L'An Cinq du la Revolution Algerienne:
Nigel Gibson (Columbia University).
20. Fanon on the Role of Violence in Liberation: A Comparison to
Gandhi and Mandela: Gail M. Presby (Marist College).
21. Fanon's Tragic Revolutionary Violence: Lewis R. Gordon
(Purdue University).
Afterword: Joy Ann James (University of Massachusetts &
University of Colorado).
Bibliography.
Introduction.
Part I: Oppression:.
1. Fanon, Oppression and Resentment: The Black Experience in the
United States: Floyd W. Hayes III (Purdue University).
2. Perspectives of Du Bois and Fanon on the Psychology of
Oppression: Stanley O. Gaines, Jr.
3. Racism and Objectification: Reflections on Themes from Fanon:
Richard Schitt (Brown University).
Part II: Questioning the Human Sciences:.
4. Fanon's Body of Black Experience: Ronald A. T. Judy
(University of Pittsburgh).
5. The Black and the Body Politic: Fanon's Existential
Phenomenological Critique of Psychoanalysis: Lewis R. Gordon.
6. To Cure and to Free: The Fanonian Project of Decolonized
Psychiatry: Francoise Verges (UC Berkeley).
7. Revolutionizing Theory: Sociological Dimensions in Fanon's
Sociologie D'Une Revolution: Renee T. White (Purdue
University).
Part III: Identity and the Dialectics of Recognition:
.
8. Casting the Slough: Fanons New Humanism for a New Humanity:
Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis).
9. Fanon, Sartre and Identity Politics: Sonia Kruks (Oberlin
College).
10. The Difference Between the Hegelian and Fanonian Dialectic
of Lordship and Bondage: Lou Turner.
Part IV: Fanon and the Emancipation of Women of Color:
.
11. Antiblack Femininity - Mixed-Race Identity: Engaging Fanon
to Reread Capecia: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Purdue
University).
12. Violent Women: Surging into Forbidden Quarter: Nada Elia
(Western Illinois University-Macomb).
13. To Conquer the Veil: Fanon's Continued Relevance to Algeria:
Eddy Souffrant (Marquette University).
14. Invisibility and Super/Vision: Fanon on Race, Veils, and
Discourses of Resistance: David Theo Goldberg (Arizona State
University).
Part V: Postcolonial Dreams, Neocolonial Realities: .
15. Public (Re)Memory, Vindicating Narratives, and Troubling
Beginnings: Towards a Postcolonial Psychoanalytical Theory: Maurice
Stevens (Santa Cruz).
16. Fanon, African and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy: Paget Henry
(Brown University).
17. Fanon and the Contemporary Discourse of African Philosophy:
Tsenay Serequeberhan (Simmons College).
18. On the Misadvertures of National Consciousness: A Retrospect
on Frantz Fanon's Gift of Prophecy: Olufemi Taiwo (Loyola
University, Chicago).
Part VI: Resistance and Revolutionary Violence:.
19. Jammin' the Airwaves and Tuning Into the Revolution: The
Dialectics of the Radio in L'An Cinq du la Revolution Algerienne:
Nigel Gibson (Columbia University).
20. Fanon on the Role of Violence in Liberation: A Comparison to
Gandhi and Mandela: Gail M. Presby (Marist College).
21. Fanon's Tragic Revolutionary Violence: Lewis R. Gordon
(Purdue University).
Afterword: Joy Ann James (University of Massachusetts &
University of Colorado).
Bibliography.
Lewis R. Gordon teaches philosophy and African American
studies at Purdue University. He is author of Fanon and the
Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human
Sciences (1995) and Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism
(1995), as well as editor of Existence in Black: An Anthology of
Black Existential Philosophy (1996) and co-editor of Black
Texts and Black Textuality: Constructing and de-constructing
Blackness.
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting teaches French and African
American Studies at Purdue University. She is co-editor of
Spoils of War: Women, Cultures, Revolutions and author of
Black Female Bodies, White Male Imaginations: Nineteenth-Century
French Narratives on Black Femininity.
Renée T. White teaches sociology and African
American Studies at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Black
Texts and Black Textuality and Spoils of War. She is
also completing her first book, New Sexual Identities: Black
Teenage Women and Sex in the AIDS Era.
studies at Purdue University. He is author of Fanon and the
Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human
Sciences (1995) and Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism
(1995), as well as editor of Existence in Black: An Anthology of
Black Existential Philosophy (1996) and co-editor of Black
Texts and Black Textuality: Constructing and de-constructing
Blackness.
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting teaches French and African
American Studies at Purdue University. She is co-editor of
Spoils of War: Women, Cultures, Revolutions and author of
Black Female Bodies, White Male Imaginations: Nineteenth-Century
French Narratives on Black Femininity.
Renée T. White teaches sociology and African
American Studies at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Black
Texts and Black Textuality and Spoils of War. She is
also completing her first book, New Sexual Identities: Black
Teenage Women and Sex in the AIDS Era.
