Frantz Fanons Black Skin, White Masks New Interdisciplinary eassys

First published in 1952, Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks is one of the most important anti-colonial works of the post-war period. It is both a profound critique of the conscious and unconscious ways in which colonialism brutalises the colonised and a passionate cry from deep within a black body alienated by the colonial system and in search of liberation from it. This volume is the first collection of essays specifically devoted to Fanon's text. It offers a wide range of interpretations of the text by leading scholars in a number of disciplines. Chapters deal with Fanon's Martinican heritage, Fanon and Creolism, ideas of race and racism and new humanism, Fanon and Sartre, representations of Blacks and Jews, and the psychoanalysis of race, gender and violence. Contributors offer new ways of reading the text and the volume as a whole constitutes an important contribution to the growing field of Fanon studies.

Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds.

PrefaceChronology Introduction - Max Silverman1 Adieu foulard. Adieu madras - David Macey2 Where to begin? The commencement in 'Peau noire, masques blancs' and in creolisation - Françoise Vergès3 Colonial racisms in the 'métropole': reading 'Peau noire, masques blancs' in context - Jim House4 Frantz Fanon and the Black-Jewish imaginary - Bryan Cheyette5 The European knows and does not know: Fanon's response to Sartre - Robert Bernasconi6 Reflections on the human question - Max Silverman7 Children of violence - Vicky Lebeau8 En moi: Frantz Fanon and René Maran - David MarriottNotes on contributors