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Book SynopsisFrantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays, articles and notes published in this volume cover the most politically active period of his life and encapsulate the breadth, depth and urgency of his writings. In particular, they clarify and amplify his much-debated views on violent resistance. These works provide new complexity to our understanding of Fanon and reveal just how relevant his thinking is to the contemporary world and how important his ideas are to changing it.
Trade ReviewFanon’s writings, some of the most intense political writing of the century, reflect the turmoil of his moment and seek a way out through a series of provisional and historically specific solutions … What
The Political Writings shows is the range of problems and solutions faced by one of the great leftists of the 20th century. * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Table of ContentsPlates Frantz Fanon: Works Cited General Introduction,
by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young Introduction 1. The demoralized Foreign Legion 2. Algeria’s independence: An everyday reality 3. National independence: The only possible outcome 4. Algeria and the French crisis 5. The Algerian conflict and African anticolonialism 6. A democratic revolution 7. Once again: The reason for the precondition 8. Algerian revolutionary consciousness 9. In the Caribbean, birth of a nation? 10. The strategy of an army with its back to the wall 11. The survivors of no man’s land 12. Testament of a ‘man of the left’ 13. Ultracolonialism’s rationale 14. The western world and the fascist experience in France 15. Gaulist illusions 16. The calvary of a people 17. The rising anti-imperialist movement and the slow-wits of pacification 18. African countries and their solidary combat 19. Richard Wright’s
White Man, Listen! 20. At Conakry, he declares: ‘Global peace goes via national independence’ 21. Africa accuses the west 22. Why we use violence 23. The stooges of imperialism 24. Letter to Ali Shariati Publishing Fanon (France and Italy, 1959-1971) Frantz Fanon’s Library and Life Franz Fanon’s Library Key dates of Fanon’s chronology Index
