...Nigel C. Gibson How can the wretched of the earth become a basis of a new politics? Does Frantz Fanon’s dialectic of organization, only implicit in his writings, and certainly not simply reducible to any particular organization or to direct action, have anything to offer our period of revolts...

...Alfred J. López Throughout his writings, what Frantz Fanon calls the colonized subject’s “reality” is really his lived experience. That experience, especially in the latter chapters of Black Skin, White Masks , alternates between outright invisibility and the “crushing objecthood” of being seen...

...Miguel Mellino The essay suggests that Frantz Fanon’s French term damnés has very different existentialist and political meanings than those conveyed by the English word wretched . Fanon’s conception of the damned was highly influenced by the revolutionary modernist political imagination of black...

...Priyamvada Gopal This essay assesses the translatability, across historical contexts, of Frantz Fanon’s iconic theory of revolutionary violence. It examines Fanon’s work through the prism of the Maoist insurgency in India alongside relevant writings by Arundhati Roy and K. Balagopal. © 2013 Duke...

...Grant Farred This essay posits Jacques Derrida as a postcolonial thinker whose work Monolingualism of the Other; or, The Prosthesis of Origin must be understood as coming, at once, both before and after Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth . The argument here is for postcolonialism as a form...

...Erin R. Pineda Martin Luther King Jr. and Frantz Fanon are often conceived as offering incompatible political strategies for liberation from the structures of white supremacy and colonization. While in 1958 King contended that the choice was not between “violence and nonviolence, but between...

...John E. Drabinski This essay frames Fanon’s work on revolutionary consciousness in The Wretched of the Earth with the problem of memory. In particular, it asks how Fanon’s conception of the colonized is underwritten by a double-movement of remembering and forgetting. The colonized must remember...

...Gerard Aching In The Wretched of the Earth , Frantz Fanon intimates to the reader that including his psychiatric notes in the book might be considered “out of place or untimely” for the cause of political decolonization that he advocates in it. This essay examines the theoretical implications...

...Joy James This examination of “Concerning Violence,” the first chapter of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth , reflects on the rebellion of the native intellectual against colonialism and racism. This essay argues that the possibilities of political transformation through struggles against...

...Simon Morgan Wortham In Frantz Fanon’s “The Negro and Recognition,” the Hegelian theme of mutual recognition as the origin of man’s self-consciousness and potential freedom is tested against the complex circumstances to which colonialism leads. Here, Fanon’s idea that the “Negro slave...

...Amey Victoria Adkins While Simone de Beauvoir and Frantz Fanon are icons of the French existential movement—each being the influential progenitors of feminist theory and postcolonial studies, respectively—their names, lives, and works are rarely examined in concert. This essay argues...

...Ranjana Khanna Khanna engages the notion of the lumpenproletariat in Frantz Fanon, tracing the concept through Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, its transformation through Fanon, and its commonality with and distinction from notions of the subaltern. She draws in particular on the material...

...Richard Pithouse This essay begins by noting the commitment to the universal that animated Frantz Fanon’s praxis. It then suggests that in a moment of renewal in both radical thought and practice there could be real value in returning to this commitment. However, the essay warns that in the past...

...Grant Farred © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. References Fanon Frantz . 1952 . Peau noire, masques blancs . Paris : Éditions du Seuil . ———. 2004...

... in the ongoing revolutions in Bolivia and Chiapas. The essay is grounded in the observation of Frantz Fanon that “what matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the necessity for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity must respond to this question, or be shaken to pieces by it.” © 2011 Duke...

... Césaire's apocalyptic and establishes it as a precondition of the work of two post-Césairean trends: existentialism (Frantz Fanon) and what I call the Afro-postmodern (Edouard Glissant). © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 Césaire Fanon history memory apocalypse prophecy References...

...Sam Okoth Opondo Heeding Frantz Fanon's thoughts on colonialism and forgiveness alongside his call for us to “turn over a new leaf . . . work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man,” this text-mediated meditation on the hatred of forgiveness contends with the question/quest of forgiveness...

..., and the principles of epistemic disobedience, this intervention represents a deliberate departure from traditional educational paradigms. It endeavors to cultivate a more inclusive and liberatory learning environment by drawing on theoretical frameworks articulated by renowned scholars such as Freire, Fanon, Mignolo...

...Fred Moten In taking up the profound and necessary challenge of Afro-pessimism, scholars engaged in black study must not only attend to the relation between blackness and nothingness that Frank B. Wilderson III and Jared Sexton elaborate in their encounter with the work of Frantz Fanon but must...

...Matthew Abraham Drawing upon Fanon’s central insights in Wretched of the Earth , this essay seeks to explore how Palestinian suicide bombers in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict enact a biopolitical strategy, as part of an anti-colonial politics of struggle, to resist Israeli...