Frantz Fanon

<p>Frantz Fanon has established a position as a leading anticolonial thinker, through key texts such as <i>Black Skin, White Masks</i> and <i>The Wretched of the Earth</i>. He has influenced the work of thinkers from Edward Said and Homi Bhabha to Paul Gilroy, but his complex work is often misinterpreted as an apology for violence.</p><p>This clear, student-friendly guidebook considers Fanon’s key texts and theories, looking at: </p><ul><p><li>Postcolonial theory’s appropriation of psychoanalysis</li><p></p><p><li>Anxieties around cultural nationalisms and the rise of native consciousness</li><p></p><p><li>Postcoloniality’s relationship with violence and separatism</li><p></p><p><li>New humanism and ideas of community. </li><p></p></p></p></p></p></ul><p>Introducing the work of this controversial theorist, Pramod K. Nayar also offers alternative readings, charting Fanon’s influence on postcolonial studies, literary criticism and cultural studies.</p>