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Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics - Finding Something Different

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This book examines how the work of Frantz Fanon might be best appropriated for contemporary political and cultural issues. Reviewing the field of "Fanon studies" and bringing Fanon into conversation with such figures as Edward Said, Michel Foucault, Jamaica Kincaid, and Paul Gilroy, this book is of interest to scholars across a range of disciplines.

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fanon Now
1¿Reading Fanon Anti-Piously: On the Need to Appropriate
2¿The Struggle Within Humanism: Fanon and Said
3¿The Humanism Effect: Fanon, Foucault, and Ethics without Subjects
4¿The Futures of Postcolonial Criticism: Fanon and Kincaid
5¿ "Enough of This Scandal": Reading Gilroy through Fanon,
or Who Comes After "Race"?
6¿ "Any Decolonization Is a Success": Fanon and the African Spring
Conclusion: Singularity and Solidarity: Fanonian Futures
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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Anthony C. Alessandrini is associate professor of English at Kingsborough Community College and the Master of Arts program in Middle Eastern Studies at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

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This book examines how the work of Frantz Fanon might be best appropriated for contemporary political and cultural issues. Reviewing the field of "Fanon studies" and bringing Fanon into conversation with such figures as Edward Said, Michel Foucault, Jamaica Kincaid, and Paul Gilroy, this book is of interest to scholars across a range of disciplines.

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