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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829046803321

Autore

Alessandrini Anthony C (Anthony Charles), <1969->

Titolo

Frantz Fanon and the future of cultural politics : finding something different / / Anthony C. Alessandrini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-7229-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Politics and culture

Humanism

Postcolonialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

FRANTZ FANON AND THE FUTURE OF CULTURAL POLITICS; 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

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how the work of a revolutionary writer such as Frantz Fanon might be best appropriated for contemporary political and cultural issues. Reviewing the field of "Fanon studies" in relation to his contemporaries as well as modern contexts, this book will be of interest to scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines.