Living Fanon

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: Living Fanon?

   • Nigel C. Gibson

   Pages 1-10

3. Requiem on a Life Well Lived: In Memory of Fanon

   • Lewis R. Gordon

   Pages 11-26

4. Frantz Fanon and Abane Ramdane: Brief Encounter in the Algerian Revolution

   • Beläid Abane

   Pages 27-43

5. Fanon and the Possibility of Postcolonial Critical Imagination

   • Ato Sekyi-Otu

   Pages 45-59

6. Notes from the Underground, Fanon, Africa, and the Poetics of the Real

   • Miguel Mellino

   Pages 61-73

7. Reflections on Fanon and Petrification

   • Douglas Ficek

   Pages 75-84

8. The Great White Error and the Great Black Mirage: Frantz Fanon’s Critical Philosophy of Race

   • Robert Bernasconi

   Pages 85-92

9. The Times and Spaces of (De-)Colonization: Fanon’s Countercolonialism, Then and Now

   • Stefan Kipfer

   Pages 93-104

10. Rupture and New Beginning in Fanon: Elements for a Genealogy of Postcolonial Critique

    • Matthieu Renault

    Pages 105-116

11. Fanon and the Biopolitics of Torture: Contextualizing Psychological Practices as Tools of War

    • Lou Turner

    Pages 117-130

12. Fanon, Fifty Years Later: Resisting the Air of Our Present Time

    • Alice Cherki

    Pages 131-138

13. Fanon and the Women of the Colonies against the White Man’s Burden

    • Seloua Luste Boulbina

    Pages 139-148

14. The Emergence of the Subject in Politics: Some Reflections on the Algerian Situation and on the Work of Frantz Fanon

    • Karima Lazali

    Pages 149-158

15. Wretchedness

    • Grant Farred

    Pages 159-172

16. Fanon and the Land Question in (Post)Apartheid South Africa

    • Mabogo Percy More

    Pages 173-185

17. The Nation and Its Politics: Fanon, Emancipatory Nationalism, and Political Sequences

    • Michael Neocosmos

    Pages 187-199

18. Of Force, Power, and Will: Rousseau and Fanon on Democratic Legitimacy

    • Jane Anna Gordon

    Pages 201-211

19. Fanon and Political Will

    • Peter Hallward

    Pages 213-224

20. Fidelity to Fanon

    • Richard Pithouse

    Pages 225-234

Frantz Fanon has influenced generations of activists and scholars. His life's work continues to be debated and discussed around the world. 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.

• Africa
• colonialism
• Europe
• identity
• nation
• revolution
• USA

"Nigel C. Gibson and the other contributors shed a truly original and comprehensive light on the works of Frantz Fanon. This book is extremely important for anyone wishing to understand the thinking and action of Fanon in its various aspects. With rigor and an impressive knowledge of man and his work, the contributors offer the reader a highly commendable synthesis of the thinking and the struggles of Frantz Fanon which is very topical." - Mireille Fanon-Mendès-France, President, Foundation Frantz Fanon"In memory of Fanon, this collection of studies is the story of a subject in politics and imagination. It reclaims a passion and reinstates it in the full ambiguity of its message as both the saga of a militant and a lesson from a twentieth-century period. Fanon s chronicle sanctions an intellectual bridge between the practice of disciplines and that of alienated feelings in today s global world. This is a major statement in Fanon studies." - V.Y. Mudimbe, Duke University"Nigel C. Gibson, who is arguably one of the leading Frantz Fanon scholars in the world, has assembled a volume that cogently and accessibly illustrates Fanon s continued relevance fifty years after his untimely death. With chapters that explore Fanon s contributions to psychology, philosophy, history, political science, critical pedagogy, critical race theory, feminist theory, and postcolonial theory, Living Fanon goes far to conceptually capture and resuscitate what remains truly distinctive about Fanon scritical theory and praxis - that is, its insurgent intersectionality and interdisciplinarity. In short, Living Fanon discursively demonstrates that - intellectually, politically, and spiritually speaking - even in death Fanon is still valiantly fighting on behalf of the wretched of the earth. Fanon Lives!" - Reiland Rabaka, author of Forms of Fanonism, Against Epistemic Apartheid, and Africana Critical Theory

NIGEL C. GIBSON is the Director of the Honors Program at Emerson College. He is one of the leading scholars of the work of Frantz Fanon, and the author of Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue (Prometheus, 1999), Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (Polity Press, 2003), and Biko Lives!: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko (Palgrave, 2003).

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