Frantz Fanon''s ''Black Skin, White Masks'' - New Interdisciplinary Essays

Informationen zum Autor Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds Klappentext First published in 1952, Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks is one of the most important anti-colonial works of the post-war period. It is both a profound critique of the conscious and unconcious ways in which colonialism brutalises the colonised, and a passionate cry from deep within a black body alienated by the colonial system and in search of liberation from it.This volume is the first collection of essays specifically devoted to Fanon's text. It offers a wide range of interpretations of the text by leading scholars in a number of disciplines. Chapters deal with Fanon's Martinican heritage, Fanon and Creolism, ideas of race and racism and new humanism, Fanon and Sartre, representations of Blacks and Jews, and the psychoanalysis of race, gender and violence. Contributors offer new ways of reading the text and the volume as a whole constitutes an important contribution to the growing field of Fanon studies. Zusammenfassung The first collection of essays on Frantz Fanon's classic anti-colonial text! 'Black Skin! White Masks'. It offers a range of interpretations of the text by leading scholars across various disciplines. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Max Silverman, Maxim Silverman, Maxim Silverman Silverman
• Assisted by: Max Silverman (Editor), Maxim Silverman (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2006
• EAN: 9780719064487
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6448-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Texts in Culture; Texts in Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Bezug zu Latino-Amerikanern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American