![]() ![]() His participation in the Algerian revolutionary struggle shifted his thinking from theorizations of blackness to a wider, more ambitious theory of colonialism, anti-colonial struggle, and visions for a postcolonial culture and society”. Born and raised in Martinique, Frantz Fanon fought for the Free French Forces against the Nazis, and then devoted his life to the liberation of Algeria from France. Afin de rendre hommage ce penseur et crivain, la Collectivit Territoriale. His impact was immediate upon arrival in Algeria, where in 1953 he was appointed to a position in psychiatry at Bilda-Joinville Hospital. Frantz Omar Fanon was a Franchophone Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique (today a French. 2016 est lanne symbolique du 55me anniversaire de la mort de Frantz Fanon. Collections of essays, A Dying Colonialism ( L’an V de la révolution Algérienne 1959) and Toward the African Revolution ( Pour la revolution Africaine ), posthumously published in 1964, round out a portrait of a radical thinker in motion, moving from the Caribbean to Europe to North Africa to sub-Saharan Africa and transforming his thinking at each stop.įanon engaged the fundamental issues of his day: language, affect, sexuality, gender, race and racism, religion, social formation, time, and many others. ![]() In his lifetime, he published two key original works: Black Skin, White Masks ( Peau noire, masques blancs ) in 1952 and The Wretched of the Earth ( Les damnés de la terre ) in 1961. His work drew on a wide array of poetry, psychology, philosophy, and political theory, and its influence across the global South has been wide, deep, and enduring. Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon (Author) Richard Philcox (Translator) (2008). He died in the United States, from leukaemia, on 6 December 1961. “ Frantz Omar Fanon (1925–1961) was one of the most important writers in black Atlantic theory in an age of anti-colonial liberation struggle. Frantz Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique on 25 July 1925. ![]() Caribbean Anti-Colonial Thought Archive ProjectĬreating an online archive for Trinity College’s Center for Caribbean Studies ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |