The Political Writings from Alienation and Freedom

Frantz Fanon, Jean Khalfa, Robert J. C. Young, Steven Corcoran

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781350125995
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350126008
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophie
• Subtopic: Politische Philosophie

Frantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays, articles and notes published in this volume cover the most politically active period of his life and encapsulate the breadth, depth and urgency of his writings. In particular, they clarify and amplify his much-debated views on violent resistance.

These works provide new complexity to our understanding of Fanon and reveal just how relevant his thinking is to the contemporary world and how important his ideas are to changing it.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents 
• Illustrations
• Frantz Fanon: Works Cited
• Editors’ Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Fanon, Revolutionary
• 1 The demoralized Foreign Legion
• 2 Algeria’s independence: An everyday reality
• 3 National independence: The only possible outcome
• 4 Algeria and the French crisis
• 5 The Algerian conflict and African anticolonialism
• 6 A democratic revolution
• 7 Once again: The reason for the precondition
• 8 Algerian revolutionary consciousness
• 9 In the Caribbean, birth of a nation?
• 10 The strategy of an army with its back to the wall
• 11 The survivors of no man’s land
• 12 Testament of a ‘man of the left’
• 13 Ultracolonialism’s rationale
• 14 The western world and the fascist experience in France
• 15 Gaullist illusions
• 16 The calvary of a people
• 17 The rising anti-imperialist movement and the slow-wits of pacification
• 18 African countries and their solidary combat
• 19 Richard Wright’s White Man, Listen!
• 20 At Conakry, he declares: ‘Global peace goes via national independence’
• 21 Africa accuses the west
• 22 Why we use violence
• 23 The stooges of imperialism
• 24 Letter to Ali Shariati
• Publishing Fanon (France and Italy, 1959–1971)
• Frantz Fanon’s Library and Life
• Key dates of Fanon’s Life
• Index
• Imprint