Frantz Fanon

James S. Williams

• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781789148350
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosopher Biographies

A biography of the revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist. Doctor, militant, essayist, ambassador, teacher, journalist, pan-Africanist, Frantz Fanon sought to decolonize mid-twentieth-century culture as he embodied a new kind of intellectual. Born in colonial Martinique, he fought for France during World War II but later renounced his citizenship and fought in the Algerian War of Independence. This book emphasizes Fanon's gift for self-invention and performance as it follows his short but extraordinary life and explores how his pioneering work in psychiatry influenced his revolutionary philosophy.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Fanon: Doctor, Writer, Revolutionary
• 1 More French than French: Boyhood on a Colonial Island
• 2 Fighting for the Republic: From Dissidence to Combat
• 3 Return to the Native Land: With and Against Césaire
• 4 The Voyage In: Love and Loathing in Lyon
• 5 Getting Under the Colonial Skin, Leaping Out of History
• 6 Socialtherapy: The Breakthrough of Saint-Alban
• 7 Blida: Where Medicine Meets War
• 8 Public Acts of Provocation: Fanon in Performance
• 9 My Name is Ibrahim: Exile in Tunis
• 10 Lifting the Veil/Preaching Revolution
• 11 Accra, Pan-Africanism and the Southern Front
• 12 Down to the Wire: The Damned Reborn
• 13 The Final Crossing
• 14 Fanon’s After-Lives
• References
• Select Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Photo Acknowledgements