Fanon (eBook)

Nigel C. Gibson is Director of the Honors Program at Emerson College, Boston, and a research associate in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University and the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University.

Acknowledgments.

Abbreviations for Fanon's Works.

Introduction.

1. The Racial Gaze: Black Slave, White Master.

2. Psychoanalysis and the Black's Inferiority Complex.

3. Negritude and the Descent into a "Real Hell".

4. Becoming Algerian.

5. Violent Concerns.

6. Radical Mutations: Toward a Fighting Culture.

7. Crossing the Dividing Line: Spontaneity and Organization.

8. Nationalism and a New Humanism.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index

"Caricatured as a mindless apostle of violence, Fanon emerges in
Nigel Gibson's rigorous and subtle analysis as a major humanistic
thinker about injustice, a serious critic of nationalism and, for
the first time, as an impressively profound philosopher of modern
post-colonial politics and culture." Edward W. Said, Columbia
University

"This definitive interpretation of Fanon brilliantly touches the
heart. Gibson presents a compelling and engaging analysis of
Fanon's original theory of the racial gaze, of revolution, and of
Fanon's complex theory of violence. All the perennial themes of
political theory are masterfully presented in this major book.
Readers will feel morally civilized after they read it." Teodros
Kiros, Harvard University

"Gibson's prose is elegant and clear and this book is, by far,
the best introduction to Fanon's life and work. But it does more
than this....The key idea that runs throughout the book is that of
the dialectic. Gibson argues that there is an unstable, critical
and creative element in the heart of FAnon's thought that seeks to
move through apparently irreconcilable contradictions. This kind of
analysis is what we would expect from any responsible engagement
with Fanon's work and Gibson develops it very well. But he goes
further and makes an original and significant contribution by
showing that for Fanon this kind of progress requires the
development of a fighting culture." Richard Pithouse, Sunday
Independent