Fanon : The Postcolonial Imagination Hardback
by Nigel C. Gibson
Part of the Key Contemporary Thinkers series
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Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period.
A veritable "intellect on fire," Fanon was a radical thinker with original theories on race, revolution, violence, identity and agency. This book is an excellent introduction to the ideas and legacy of Fanon.
Gibson explores him as a truly complex character in the context of his time and beyond.
He argues that for Fanon, theory has a practical task to help change the world.
Thus Fanon's "untidy dialectic," Gibson contends, is a philosophy of liberation that includes cultural and historical issues and visions of a future society.
In a profoundly political sense, Gibson asks us to reevaluate Fanon's contribution as a critic of modernity and reassess in a new light notions of consciousness, humanism, and social change. This is a fascinating study that will interest undergraduates and above in postcolonial studies, literary theory, cultural studies, sociology, politics, and social and political theory, as well as general readers.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:29/04/2003
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- ISBN:9780745622606
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:29/04/2003
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- ISBN:9780745622606