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Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms, by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms represents a bold examination of previous feminist criticisms of Fanon and argues that Fanon's writings on women and resistance provide the formative kernels of a liberating praxis for women existing under colonial and neocolonial oppression. Fanon's analyses of the Negro and Language, his critique of the novelist Mayotte Capecia, and his views on the condition of Algerian women figure prominently in this study. Sharpley-Whiting skillfully brings together approaches from a broad range of academic fields, including critical race theory, literary and cultural criticism, and psychoanalysis as she assesses the relevance of Fanon's theories of oppression to a feminist politics of resistance.

• Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (December 29, 1997)

ISBN: 9780847686391 

Por uma psicologia social antirracista : Contribuições de Frantz Fanon

Edelu Kawahala e Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar y Soler

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brasil

Atualmente no Brasil, principalmente por conta do surgimento de políticas públicas com o objetivo de diminuir as desigualdades raciais, as discussões sobre temas relacionados às questões raciais têm ganhado maior visibilidade. Em um país historicamente racista como o nosso, saberes que sustentam o mito da demo- cracia racial1 e a impossibilidade de identificação dos negros por conta da miscigenação seriam os principais argumentos usados para o impedimento da implantação de políticas como o programa de ações afirmativas tanto no ensino superior quanto no funcionalismo público, por exemplo. Por outro lado, surgem também importantes produções que irão intensificar estratégias de reparação das injustiças históricas cometidas até hoje. É diante desse cenário conflituoso que o livro Pele Negra, Más- caras Brancas é reeditado em língua portuguesa, che- gando até nós como um instrumento de combate útil nos desdobramentos contemporâneos que a luta antiracista assume. Quer dizer, mais de que uma exposição teórica, o que Fanon no oferece é um mergulho na realidade das relações raciais do mundo contemporâneo. Seu texto quebra com todos os paradigmas de uma ciência positivista produzida não só no início do século XX, mas também nos dias de hoje. Embora, sua formação seja a psiquiatria, percebe-se ao longo do livro, um interessante diálogo com os estudos antropológicos e sociológicos. Não obstante, Fanon, procura falar tam- bém de um novo lugar epistemológico, na medida em que, propõe uma ruptura com esses saberes tradicionais concentrados no etnocentrismo em favor de uma nova possibilidade analítica que se dirige da periferia para o centro.

Edelu Kawahala é Mestre em Psicologia pela UFSC e atualmente é aluna especial do doutorado em Psicologia pela UFSC. Consultora para projetos de Pedagogia Multirracial na Organização Não Governamental Núcleo de Estudos Negros de Florianópolis/SC. Endereço: Rua Vereador Mário Coelho Pires, no 221. Bl. a, apto. 1302. São José/SC, Brasil. CEP: 88101-280. Email: edelukaw@hotmail.com

Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar y Soler é Bacharel em Psicologia pela UNESC e atualmente é aluno do Mestrado em Psicologia pela UFSC. Email: diazsoler@gmail.com

Como citar:

Kawahala, E. & Vivar y Soler, R. d. (2010). Por uma psi- cologia social antirracista: contribuições de Frantz Fanon. Psicologia & Sociedade, 22(2), 408-410.

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Fanon's Dialectic of Experience, by Ato. Sekyi-Otu

With the flowering of postcolonialism, we return to Frantz Fanon, a leading theorist of the struggle against colonialism. In this thorough reinterpretation of Fanon's texts, Ato Sekyi-Otu ensures that we return to him fully aware of the unsuspected formal complexity and substantive richness of his work. A Caribbean psychiatrist trained in France after World War II and an eloquent observer of the effects of French colonialism on its subjects from Algeria to Indochina, Fanon was a controversial figure--advocating national liberation and resistance to colonial power in his bestsellers, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth.

But the controversies attending his life--and death, which some ascribed to the CIA--are small in comparison to those surrounding his work. Where admirers and detractors alike have seen his ideas as an incoherent mixture of Existentialism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis, Sekyi-Otu restores order to Fanon's oeuvre by reading it as one dramatic dialectical narrative.Fanon's Dialectic of Experience invites us to see Fanon as a dramatist enacting a movement of experience--the drama of social agents in the colonial context and its aftermath--in a manner idiosyncratically patterned on the narrative structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. By recognizing the centrality of experience to Fanon's work, Sekyi-Otu allows us to comprehend this much misunderstood figure within the tradition of political philosophy from Aristotle to Arendt.

Ato Sekyi-Otu is Associate Professor in the Division of Social Science and the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University, Ontario.

Harvard University Press (June 2009)

Frantz Fanon en el siglo. Sobre ciertas persistencias en el pensamiento latinoamericano

Alejandro De Oto*


Resumen
El llamado giro descolonial propone una reconfiguración de nuestras bibliotecas pero tiene muchos bordes polémicos y núcleos de sentido ciertamente irreductibles. Una clave de análisis es el retorno de textos que parecían confinados a memorias y biografías políticas del pasado, al contexto de las discusiones latinoamericanas y caribeñas actuales. La escritura de Frantz  Fanon es un momento central de ese retorno.  Aquí presentamos las razones que la constituyen en un archivo cultural y político aún abierto para pensar categorías como las de alienación, cultura nacional, liberación, entre otras.

*Alejandro De Oto
 : Enseña Historia de la historiografía y Teorías poscoloniales y descoloniales en la Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia S. J. B., Argentina. Obtuvo su doctorado en el Centro de Estudios de Asia y África de El Colegio de México, ha sido Research Fellow en Brown University y participado del African Series Seminar de University of Cape Town como conferencista, entre otras actividades. Es miembro de distintas asociaciones académicas y ha publicado numerosos artículos de crítica poscolonial, literatura de viaje y ensayos culturales. Es autor de tres libros, El viaje de la escritura. Richard Francis Burton y el Este de África, Representaciones inestables y Frantz Fanon. Política y poética del sujeto poscolonial. Este último recibió en 2005 el premio "Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought" de la Caribbean Philosophical Association. Su trabajo más reciente fue el libro compilado y editado en coautoría con Walter Mignolo La teoría política en la encrucijada descolonial. En el presente investiga sobre los conceptos de liberación nacional, contingencia e historicidad en la obra de pensadores del Caribe y Latinoamericanos.

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Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination, by Nigel Gibson

"Caricatured as a mindless apostle of violence, Fanon emerges in Nigel Gibson's rigorous and subtle analysis as a major humanistic thinker about injustice, a serious critic of nationalism and, for the first time, as an impressively profound philosopher of modern post-colonial politics and culture." Edward W. Said, Columbia University"This definitive interpretation of Fanon brilliantly touches the heart. Gibson presents a compelling and engaging analysis of Fanon's original theory of the racial gaze, of revolution, and of Fanon's complex theory of violence. All the perennial themes of political theory are masterfully presented in this major book. Readers will feel morally civilized after they read it." Teodros Kiros, Harvard University 
"Gibson's prose is elegant and clear and this book is, by far, the best introduction to Fanon's life and work. But it does more than this....The key idea that runs throughout the book is that of the dialectic. Gibson argues that there is an unstable, critical and creative element in the heart of FAnon's thought that seeks to move through apparently irreconcilable contradictions. This kind of analysis is what we would expect from any responsible engagement with Fanon's work and Gibson develops it very well. But he goes further and makes an original and significant contribution by showing that for Fanon this kind of progress requires the development of a fighting culture." Richard Pithouse, Sunday Independent

Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period. A veritable "intellect on fire," Fanon was a radical thinker with original theories on race, revolution, violence, identity and agency.

This book is an excellent introduction to the ideas and legacy of Fanon. Gibson explores him as a truly complex character in the context of his time and beyond. He argues that for Fanon, theory has a practical task to help change the world. Thus Fanon's "untidy dialectic," Gibson contends, is a philosophy of liberation that includes cultural and historical issues and visions of a future society. In a profoundly political sense, Gibson asks us to reevaluate Fanon's contribution as a critic of modernity and reassess in a new light notions of consciousness, humanism, and social change.

This is a fascinating study that will interest undergraduates and above in postcolonial studies, literary theory, cultural studies, sociology, politics, and social and political theory, as well as general readers.

Nigel C. Gibson is Director of the Honors Program at Emerson College, Boston, and a research associate in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University and the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University.

Polity (July 7, 2003)

La langue est piégée, par Nèg Lyrical

"Nous attachons une importance particulière au phénomène du langage. C'est pourquoi nous estimons nécessaire cette étude qui doit pouvoir nous livrer un des éléments de compréhension de la dimension pour-autrui de l'homme de couleur. Étant entendu que parler, c'est exister absolument pour l'autre."
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L’Algérie, terre des révolutions, par Mounira Benachour

Depuis la Révolution novembriste de 1954, l’Algérie aspire à un tiers-monde révolutionnaire. La guerre de libération nationale a été le porte-étendard de tous les opprimés du tiers monde. La cruauté de ce conflit et ses humiliations ont forgé le caractère révolutionnaire des Algériens. Cette violence originelle dans laquelle a baigné et germé la naissance de la Nation algérienne condamne-t-elle l’Algérie du troisième millénaire à être uniquement révolutionnaire ?

A l’indépendance, l’Algérie est devenue la Mecque des révolutionnaires. Il n’était pas rare de croiser dans les rues d’Alger ou d’Oran, des personnalités exemplaires telles que Nelson Mandela, Jomo Kenyatta, Mehdi Ben Barka, Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral ainsi que beaucoup d’autres leaders charismatiques. Ces révoltés luttaient dans leurs pays respectifs et au-delà de leurs contrées, contre les dictatures et l’impérialisme comme Mario Suarez – qui deviendra président du Portugal, et de tous les Chiliens exilés après l’assassinat en septembre 1971 du défunt Salvador Allende. Et l’éternel Che à l’universitaire d’Alger en train de discourir pendant des nuits entières sur sa révolution, roulant lui même ses légendaires cigares cubains.

Comme le Che qui était complètement dévoué à son idéal, l’Algérien de l’époque soutenait mordicus qu’il allait changer le Monde. L’Algérie se donnait déjà l’image d’une nation qui prenait en charge son destin. Les années soixante-dix virent progressivement s’installer en Algérie une nouvelle ère politique. Le pouvoir se voulait être une entité immuable et éternelle. Il se substituera à l’idéal «subversif» de la révolution des succédanés démagogiques pour faire son «marché» idéologique. Mais le choix d’une diplomatie offensive, où chaque négociation se devait d’être une bataille renforçait la place de l’Algérie comme leader du tiers-monde de plus en plus présent. L’Algérie, faut-il le rappeler, a également tenue le rôle, prestigieux, de médiatrice dans les grands conflits de l’époque et avait réussi des paris improbables.

Cette force d’une diplomatie sans compromis plaçait le pays au centre de la politique internationale. Les années quatre-vingts consumèrent les dernières reliques de deux décennies de Révolution. Puis vint le drame. Une pseudo révolution se voulait celles des algériens. Elle s’enrobait d’une bannière «verte» pour faire ruisseler de sang rouge la terre de tous les espoirs. Le potentiel révolutionnaire des Algériens a été récupéré par une propagande islamo-intégriste.

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Fanon and the Crisis of European Man, by Lewis R. Gordon

As the first book to analyze the work of Fanon as an existential-phenomenological of human sciences and liberation philosopher, Gordon deploys Fanon's work to illuminate how the "bad faith" of European science and civilization have philosophically stymied the project of liberation. Fanon's body of work serves as a critique of European science and society, and shows the ways in which the project of "truth" is compromised by Eurocentric artificially narrowed scope of humanity—a circumstance to which he refers as the crisis of European Man. In his examination of the roots of this crisis, Gordon explores the problems of historical salvation and the dynamics of oppression, the motivation behind contemporary European obstruction of the advancement of a racially just world, the forms of anonymity that pervade racist theorizing and contribute to "seen invisibility," and the reasons behind the impossibility of a nonviolent transition from colonialism and neocolonialism to postcolonialism.

Lewis R. Gordon teaches Africana philosophy and contemporary religious thought at Brown University. He is author of Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Humanities),Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences (Routledge), and Her Majesty's Other Children: Philosophical Sketches from a Neocolonial Age (Rowman & Littlefield). He is also co-editor ofFanon: A Critical Reader (Blackwell) and Black Texts and Textuality: Constructing and De-Constructing Blackness (Rowman & Littlefield).

Taylor & Francis, Inc. (April 1997)

ISBN: 0415914159

Conférence-débat : la pensée de Frantz Fanon - 16 mars 2011, Paris 19è

Mercredi 16 mars 2011, 19h30 à 22h. Paris (19)

Le temps d’une conférence, un écrivian, un politique, un sociologue, prendront la parole pour évoquer la pensée de Frantz Fanon, essayiste, psychiatre martiniquais.

Frantz Fanon est l’un des fondateurs du courant de pensée tiers-mondiste. Penseur très engagé, il a cherché à analyser les conséquences psychologiques de la colonisation à la fois sur le colon et sur le colonisé. Dans ses livres les plus connus, il analyse le processus de décolonisation sous les angles sociologique, philosophique et psychiatrique mais il a également écrit des articles importants dans sa discipline : la psychiatrie.

Cet analyste de la domination coloniale et combattant de la liberté, est mort il y a cinquante ans, laissant une œuvre originale et puissante, une déconstruction fondatrice de l’idéologie de la domination qui n’a rien perdu de son actualité.

Les débatteurs :

Immanuel Wallerstein, Achille Mbembe, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France et Olivier Besancenot.

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Frantz Fanon in Malaysia : Reconfiguring the ideological landscape of Negritude in Sepet, by Adeline Koh & Frieda Ekotto

The purpose of this paper therefore is to go back to and reconsider some of Frantz Fanon’s key ideas in order to explore how different parts of the formerly colonized world are dealing with and understand their encounter with European imperialism through looking at the example of how Fanon has been applied in Malaysia, in the Malaysian film by director Yasmin Ahmad, Sepet [Chinese Eyes] (2004). Malaysia offers a very interesting choice to explore the impact of Fanon’s work precisely because of its different geographical and colonial history: colonized by the British and set in Southeast Asia, Malaysia–or “Malaya” under British colonial rule–provides an interesting background from which one can see how the tensions of colonialism play out through an interaction of the Francophone world with the Anglophone world. Sepet is a love story about an unlikely couple–a middle-class Malay girl and a poor Chinese boy (who shuns his Chinese name Lee Siao Long for Jason, and who, (Fanon may have smiled), has dyed his hair blond). We will show through a reading of this film and the impact of Fanon on the film how Malaysia represents a very similar yet different world from the Francophone world of which Fanon spoke. Malaysia is also an interesting case study particularly because unlike most “typical” postcolonial countries, the country has managed to successfully industrialize since independence–allowing one also to question the problematic notion of postcolonial economic dependency. Yet, it will also be shown that Fanon’s words will still manage to reveal the atypical and difficult condition of postcolonial alienation in contemporary Malaysia through Sepet.

Full article on www.adelinekoh.org