Frantz Fanon, Postcolonialism and the Ethics of Difference

Informationen zum Autor Azzedine Haddour is Senior Lecturer in French at University College London Klappentext This book underscores the ethical dimension of Fanon's work by focusing on the interplay of language, gender and colonial politics, by discussing the implication of the medical and psychiatric establishment in the institution of colonialism and by assessing the importance of existential phenomenology in Fanon's project of decolonisation. Zusammenfassung This book underscores the ethical dimension of Fanon’s work by focusing on the interplay of language, gender and colonial politics, by discussing the implication of the medical and psychiatric establishment in the institution of colonialism and by assessing the importance of existential phenomenology in Fanon’s project of decolonisation. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A Black Rebel with a Cause1. The significance of Sartre in Fanon2. A poststructuralist reading of Fanon3. A family romance4. The North African syndrome: Madness and colonization5. The Wretched of the Earth: The anthem of decolonization?6. Tradition, translation and colonizationConclusionIndex

Product details

• Authors: Azzedine Haddour, Haddour Azzedine
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780719075230
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7523-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Phenomenology & Existentialism, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, National liberation and independence, Literary studies: postcolonial literature