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Frantz Fanon

The Politics and Poetics of the Postcolonial Subject

Alejandro J. De Oto - Translated by Karina Alma

Focusing on the contributions of Frantz Fanon's writing to the construction of a theory of the postcolonial subject, this book engages post-structuralist discussions on subjectivity and explores the most important readings and discussions of Fanon's work. Problems such as historicity, contingency, and the positions of the subject in postcolonial contexts receive special attention together with phenomenological approaches to Fanonian writing. The central idea is to give Fanon a privileged place in social, political, and cultural analysis.

The objectives of the book are to insert Fanon’s texts in contemporary critical theory on modernity and coloniality and to incorporate Fanon in the epistemological and conceptual context of the academy. This innovative work allows us to understand Fanon’s writing as key to linking the experiences and critical developments between the global south and the global north.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International

Pages: 208 •

978-1-78661-348-6 • Hardback • February 2022 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-78661-350-9 • eBook • February 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

Series: Global Critical Caribbean Thought

Subjects: Philosophy / Political, Philosophy / Continental Philosophy, Philosophy / Philosophy of Race

Frantz Fanon

The Politics and Poetics of the Postcolonial Subject

Hardback

eBook

Summary

Focusing on the contributions of Frantz Fanon's writing to the construction of a theory of the postcolonial subject, this book engages post-structuralist discussions on subjectivity and explores the most important readings and discussions of Fanon's work. Problems such as historicity, contingency, and the positions of the subject in postcolonial contexts receive special attention together with phenomenological approaches to Fanonian writing. The central idea is to give Fanon a privileged place in social, political, and cultural analysis.

The objectives of the book are to insert Fanon’s texts in contemporary critical theory on modernity and coloniality and to incorporate Fanon in the epistemological and conceptual context of the academy. This innovative work allows us to understand Fanon’s writing as key to linking the experiences and critical developments between the global south and the global north.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International

Pages: 208 •

978-1-78661-348-6 • Hardback • February 2022 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-78661-350-9 • eBook • February 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

Series: Global Critical Caribbean Thought

Subjects: Philosophy / Political, Philosophy / Continental Philosophy, Philosophy / Philosophy of Race

Table of Contents

Author’s Preface to the English Translation
Translator’s Preface / Foreword
Introduction
1. Fanon and Some Environments of Historicity
2. The Writing and the Urgencies: About Ethics and Scriptures
3. Stories of Ambivalence
4. Historicity and Contingency
5. Contingency, Identity and Alienation: The Challenge of the Spectra
6. Memory, Forgetfulness and Subjectivity
Conclusion
Afterword by Lewis R. Gordon
Frantz Fanon: A Biographical Note
Works by Frantz Fanon
Bibliography

Frantz Fanon

The Politics and Poetics of the Postcolonial Subject

Alejandro J. De Oto - Translated by Karina Alma

Frantz Fanon

The Politics and Poetics of the Postcolonial Subject

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