The enduring psychiatric legacy of Frantz Fanon: 20 July 1925 to 6 December 1961 – Psychiatry in history

Carrol Clarkson’s chapter wrestles with the contentious question of Coetzee’s relation to the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa of the 1970s and early 1980s, which took its philosophical bearings from Frantz Fanon and found expression in the writings of Steve Biko. Clarkson focuses on the ways in which Coetzee departed from the ideas about writing and resistance that were circulating in his contemporary South Africa, particularly as articulated by novelist Nadine Gordimer. Clarkson discusses two related literary-critical problems: an ethics and politics of representation, and an ethics and politics of address, showing how Coetzee explores a tension between freedom of expression and responsibility to the other. In the slippage from saying to addressing we are led to further thought about modes and sites of consciousness—and hence accountabilities—in the interlocutory contact zones of the post-colony. The chapter invites a sharper appreciation of what a postcolonial philosophy might be.

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Sartre’s imaginary and the problem of whiteness

Philosophy & Social Criticism ◽

10.1177/01914537211017582 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 019145372110175

Author(s):

Betty Jean Stoneman

Keyword(s):

Aime Cesaire ◽

Frantz Fanon ◽

White People ◽

Jean Paul ◽

Political Act ◽

White Gaze

Jean-Paul Sartre’s failures in Black Orpheus have been widely and rightly explicated by a number of theorists, most notably Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire. Sartre has rightly been criticized for imposing a white gaze onto his reading of colonized African poetry. It would seem that his work offers us no tools for anti-racist work today. For this article, I read his failures in the text alongside his work in The Imaginary and Being and Nothingness to argue that we can learn from his failures and that his failures do offer us conceptual tools for anti-racist work today. I argue that Sartre’s main contribution ought to be understood as a provocation to white people. He is provoking white people to confront how whiteness works in their imaginary. The imaginary is nothing but what one puts into it, and what one puts into it is imbued with the historical, social and cultural. The image is imbued with the individual’s experiences within a historical, social and cultural situation. If this is the case, then the confrontation with and critique of the image is a political act. In confronting and critiquing the image, one is confronting and critiquing the situation in which the image emerges. The hope is that in doing so, white people could transcend the facticity of their whiteness in particular situations for the better, which in turn would have positive consequences for the larger sociopolitical situation.

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Frantz Fanon: alienation and freedom

Journal of Postcolonial Writing ◽

10.1080/17449855.2021.1940026 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-2

Author(s):

Lee Christien

Keyword(s):

Frantz Fanon

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Spirit of Bandung beyond Colonial Mobility

Bandung Journal of the Global South ◽

10.1163/21983534-00602003 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 190-209

Author(s):

Jeong Eun Annabel We

Keyword(s):

Aime Cesaire ◽

Frantz Fanon ◽

Ernst Bloch ◽

Revolutionary Movement ◽

Liberal Humanism ◽

Current Paradigm

This article argues that the spirit of Bandung’s relevance in a time of resurgent fascist mobilization is in the new logic of movement that the 1955 Afro-Asian conference in Bandung, Indonesia espoused. The critiques of liberal humanism and its relation to fascism by Ernst Bloch, Takeuchi Yoshimi, and Aimé Césaire reveal that an underlying problem of coloniality and movement remain in current paradigm of liberalism. The article situates conceptual reworkings of colonial-fascist movement by the thinkers Takeuchi Yoshimi, Frantz Fanon, and Ch’oe In-Hun within the trajectory of the spirit of Bandung. Through this engagement, the article argues that the spirit of Bandung has called for revolutionary movement beyond the grids of colonial mobility in the transpacific.

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Biographical Note on Frantz Fanon

Interventions ◽

10.1080/1369801x.2014.993680 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 394-416 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Giovanni Pirelli ◽

Rachel E. Love

Keyword(s):

Frantz Fanon ◽

Biographical Note

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The paradox of political violence

European Journal of Social Theory ◽

10.1177/1368431013476567 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 342-356 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Mark Muhannad Ayyash

Keyword(s):

Political Violence ◽

Theoretical Approach ◽

Hannah Arendt ◽

Frantz Fanon

This article explores the paradoxical relationship between politics and violence in the concept of political violence. By examining the works of prominent theorists, such as Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon, the article highlights both the difficulty of separating politics and violence, and the improbability of formulating a harmonious relationship between them. Engaging with some of Michel Foucault’s work on power and violence, the article begins to formulate a theoretical approach that conceptualizes political violence in its inherently paradoxical condition.

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