...COLONIALISM AND REVOLUTION Fanon Meets Bourdieu But above all I wanted to get away from speculation at that time [1960s], the works of Frantz Fanon, especially The Wretched of the Earth, were the latest fashion, and they struck me as being false and dangerous. BOURDIEU, FIELDWORK IN PHILOSOPHY...

... This chapter looks at the life and work of Frantz Fanon as the misinterpellated subject par excellence. I argue that in terms of his own life experience, Fanon’s famous scene where he was interpellated by a young white boy in the streets of Lyon with a call of “tiens, un Nègre!” (look, a Negro...

...Why Fanon? Why, after so many years of relative neglect, is his name once again beginning to excite such intense intellectual debate and controversy? Why is this happening at this par tic u lar moment, at this conjuncture? And why is it around the text Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon 1986) that the...

... sacrifices incurred in the pro cess (physical pain, emotional agony, the deaths of his children) pay off, as he is blessed with more wealth and children than before. An Yountae 7 On Vio lence and Redemption Fanon and Colonial Theodicy On Violence and Redemption 205 The biblical story of Job is often used to...

..., Fanon, Wynter, and the Terror of Colonial Settlement 246 Joseph R. Winters special domain that generates value, order, and cohesion. Consequently, the sacred needs to be buffered from entities that threaten to introduce disorder and contamination.4 Since Black bodies and people of color have been marked...

...FIVE FANON S PHARMACY The first four chapters have shown how enmity now constitutes the spirit of liberal democracies, and how hatred gives them the impression of ex- periencing a pure present, a pure politics, using means that are themselves pure. I have also made the case that, historically...

... This chapter analyzes the interlacing of visible identities and the changing materiality of flesh, through a close reading of Frantz Fanon’s work. Fanon dramatizes how ideas about race affect his own body. He describes being wounded by the looks and words of others and the puzzling metamorphoses...