Living Fanon Global Perspectives

The Martiniquean-born, French-educated, Algerian revolutionary Frantz Fanon has influenced generations of activists and scholars. Nearly fifty years after his untimely death (in 1961), Fanon's life's work continues to be debated and discussed around the world. Over the past five years, for example, new translations and editions of his writings have appeared in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. 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. The perspectives are theoretical and practical, philosophical and historical, engaging psychoanalytic theories and practices, issues of identity and sexuality to contemporary postcolonial politics and from cultural criticism to urban planning and conceptions of space.

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 Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo (2011), Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue (1999), Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (2003), and Biko Lives!: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko (2008).

Living Fanon--Nigel C. Gibson * Requiem on a Life Well Lived: In Memory of Fanon--Lewis R. Gordon * Frantz Fanon and Abane Ramdane: Brief Encounter in the Algerian Revolution--Beläid Abane * Fanon and the Possibility of Postcolonial Critical Imagination--Ato Sekyi-Out * Notes from the underground, Fanon, Africa and the poetics of the Real--Miguel Mellino * Reflections on Fanon and Petrification--Douglas Ficek * The Great White Error and the Great Black Mirage: Frantz Fanon’s Critical Philosophy of Race--Robert Bernasconi * The times and spaces of (de-)colonization: Fanon’s counter-colonialism, then and now--Stefan Kipfer * Rupture and New Beginning in Fanon:Elements for a Genealogy of Postcolonial Critique--Matthieu Renault * Fanon and the Biopolitics of Torture: Contextualizing Psychological Practices as Tools of War--Lou Turner * Fanon, 50 years later: Resisting the Air of Our Present Time--Alice Cherki * Fanon and the Women of the Colonies Against the White Man’s Burden--Seloua Luste Boulbina * The Emergence of the Subject in Politics: Some Reflections on the Algerian Situation and on the Work of Frantz Fanon--Karima Lazali * Wretchedness--Grant Farred * Fanon and the Land Question in (Post) Apartheid South Africa--Mabogo Percy More * The Nation and its Politics: Fanon, emancipatory nationalism and political sequences--Michael Neocosmos * Of Force, Power, and Will:  Rousseau and Fanon on Democratic Legitimacy--Jane Anna Gordon * Fanon and Political Will--Peter Hallward * Fidelity to Fanon--Richard Pithouse