... to be largely chapter 5, "The Gestural Performative: Locating Agency in the Work of Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon," in which Noland attempts to take to task Butler's views on the construction and gendering of the subject by suggesting Butler does not adequately account for the centrality of kinesthetic...

... japon, s'impose une mention speciale a l'egard de Frantz Fanon. Traduit dans son integralite des la fin des annees soixante, Fanon n'a ecrit que quatre livres. II a ete pendant longtemps Ie seul ecrivain noir antillais disponible en japonais. C'est la generation des sartriens japonais comme Michiko...

.... In the 1950s and 1960s, French-speaking authors such as Cesaire, Fanon, and Memmi pioneered the critique of colonialism as a political and cultural system and attacked the philosophical categories that supported it. Influential in anglophone contexts, 1. This article was later repealed by the Conseil...

... fits a little too closely Fanon's by now infamous profile of the self-hating black woman attempting to erase her race through a relationship with a white man. Because of the reverence Cajou expresses for the Nordic features, eyes, and hair of her male companion (as well as those of her mother and other...

.... Her embrace of Camus, full of nuanced detaii, is a mark of this com-plicity.7 The double bind of Francophony for an 4. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Preface, Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987, eds. Goran Hugo Olsson and Sophie Vukovic (Chicago...

... on the humiliating experience of enslavement. Unsurprisingly, this entailed speaking "correctly," that is, speaking French and rejecting Creole. As Fanon admirably summarized the situation, "[t]he colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards...

... parts and the sites of repression.4 As the psychoanalyst and one-time colleague of Frantz Fanon, Alice Cherki, notes, we are dealing with "catastrophes of the real, lived in horror and blankness, catastrophes which, in the years that followed the war, not only remained unexamined, but indeed were...

... as pedagogical resource. The Introduction also underscores the fact that the depth of twentieth-century French art and literature owes much to the contributions of colonial and postcolonial writers such as Cesaire and Fanon, and to contacts with writers and artists from other parts of the world, for example...

... dans le Cahier d’un retour au pays natal : celle de l’aliénation – dont Frantz Fanon montrera plus tard à quel point elle a frappé les esclaves noirs et leurs descendants 45 . Or cette aliénation ne touche pas seulement « cette foule si étonnamment passée à côté de son cri », « cette foule qui ne...

... of the symbolic order of racial, social, and sexual identity occurs more often than not via the repetition of colonial violence. In this sense, Chauvet's work resonates with the project of Frantz Fanon in his 1952 Peau noire, masques blancs, in which he emphasizes the causal role of slavery and colonialism...

... on Djebar's commitment to fiction, she also characterizes her as a deeply theoretical writer-not a writer influenced by theory, but one whose work is congruent with the thought of Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, and Edward Said. She calls for co-readings of Djebar's fictions with philosophical and political...

... pimenter ce brouet trop rabache d'ingredients (p. 15) Serbulon avait lu son Franz Fanon car enfin, tout pouvait se resumer en quelques phrases. (p. 40) En effet, une seule ligne suffirait, une seule reponse a fournir, et Ie probleme noir se depouille de son serieux6 L'avocat Serbulon, fils embourgeoise...

..., or suicides, as in the case of Josie Fanon. In addition to these dramas, there are the slow deaths from illness or old age whose circumstances influence the mournIng process: Between a white death and the other kind of death, the one brought on by the accident of chance, or worse, murder with its pulsing roar...

... putainerie Adama, were risky stereotypes in the context of an Afrocentric identity quest. Nor was it a simple indiscretion to put in the mouth of her protagonist the following remark about African political figures: "To possess the white man's riches (the colonized is envious, Fanon said so) and their blonde...

...' pronouncements, we can certainly agree that Francophone Caribbean literature has long exhibited a certain reticence, if not prudishness, in dealing with the matter of sexuality. This reticence is as true of Frantz Fanon's now notorious footnote denying the existence of homosexuality in Martinique3...

... and C.L.R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral (New York: Lexington, 2009) 111-63. For negritude as a unified inspiration for a new generation of African diasporic poets, see Pascal Bonin, ed., Anthologie hommage aAime Cesaire: symphonies negres (Bagnolet: Idom, 2006). 5. Jean-Paul Sartre, "Lumumba et...

... conduite de Charlemagne Peraite. Les intellectueIs, quant a eux, decouvrent qu'ils sont seion Ies termes qu'emploiera plus tard Frantz Fanon des "Peaux Noires, Masques blancs" et ARAGON, DEPESTRE, CESAIRE 179 non des Occidentaux. D'origine africaine, marques par l'esclavage, ils pos- sedent une langue...

... details of torture and (to use the term I am going to focus on) horror. Neither Cesaire in his Discourse on Colonialism nor even Fanon in The Wretched of the 1. Pompee-Valentin, Baron de Vastey, Le Systeme colonial devoile (Cap-Henry: P. Roux, 1814) 35. 2. Chris Bongie, preface, The Colonial System...

...,' it was for me that Frantz Fanon was going to write his 6. The talk itself was originally given at a conference on Pan-Africanism in Claremont, California. 7. See Conde's reflections on this period in her life in Pfaff, 18-33. THE CRITICAL THOUGHT OF MARYSE CONDE 403 book" (102). Following the bitter deception...

... by a sexually related trauma, and by her daughter's decision to become a prostitute on a night they had no food. Her daughter's body is a kind of family legacy because she has inherited her mother's chest, "the well-known chest of the Fanon girls" (103). Bodies in this sense are not so much discrete objects...