Frantz Fanon (eBook)

Gender, Torture and the Biopolitics of Colonialism

Azzedine Haddour (Autor)

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2025
368 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-1-78680-832-5 (ISBN)

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Haddour is a foremost interpreter of Fanon and here sheds important new light on this critical giant of the twentieth century, challenging the assumptions of many postcolonial readers Judith Still, Emeritus Professor, University of NottinghamFew works have more creatively and comprehensively explored Fanons perspective on gender relations, the family, and womens resistance to sexual violence ... Outstanding Peter Hudis, author ofFrantz Fanon: Philosopher of the BarricadesA meticulously researched analysis Jane Hiddleston, author ofFrantz Fanon: Literature and InventionFrantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a visionary thinker whose legacy continues to shape conversations on identity, power and resistance. Here, leading Fanon scholar Azzedine Haddour explores themes of gender, revolutionary struggle and decolonisation in the first comprehensive study of Fanons lesser-known work,Studies in a Dying Colonialism(1959).Drawing on archival material, the author explores the historical developments that determined the colonial consensus and the social transformation prompted by the Algerian liberation struggle. Haddour engages with the biopolitics of French colonialism to support Fanons claim that the medical establishment acted in complicity with colonialism. He recounts various assimilationist laws that resulted in the gendering of colonial space and shows how the wars alter the perception of the colonised population through modern Western technologies like the radio.In an era where global struggles for independence and self-determination persist, this book is a fascinating new journey into the mind of a groundbreaking philosopher and icon of revolution.Azzedine Haddour is Professor in Francophone and Comparative Literature at University College London. He is the author ofFrantz Fanon,Postcolonialism and the Ethics of DifferenceandColonial Myths: History and Narrative, editor ofThe Fanon Reader, and translator of a collection of Sartres essays,Colonialism and Neocolonialism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Alienation • anti-colonial struggle • Colonialism • Colonial Psychology • cultural critique • Decolonization • Diaspora • Existentialism • global South • Identity • liberation • Nationalism • Oppression • Post-Colonial Theory • Power • Psychiatry • Race • Social Justice • Violence
• ISBN-10: 1-78680-832-3 / 1786808323
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78680-832-5 / 9781786808325