Frantz Fanon / / Pramod K. Nayar

• Autore: Nayar Pramod K.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 162 pages)
• Disciplina: 325/.3092
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Fanon: life in a revolution -- Influences and engagements -- Colonialism, race and the native psyche. Race, colonialism and identity -- The black man's inferiority complex and race -- The dependency complex -- "Mental disorders" and colonial psychiatry -- Colonialism, gender, sexuality. Colonialism and its sexual economy -- Colonialism and sexual violence -- Women, the anti-colonial struggle and the veil -- On violence I: the destruction of selfhood. Colonial violence -- Territory, geography and the violence of space -- Embodied violence and the alienation of the self -- Hegemony, violence and cultural trauma -- On violence II: the reconstruction of selfhood. Anti-colonial struggles and instrumental violence -- Absolute violence, self-realization and humanism -- Decolonization. Black consciousness, negritude and national cultures -- Negritude -- National culture -- Intellectuals, poets and the peasantry -- The intellectual and the masses -- The peasantry, the masses and political organization -- Nationalism and its pitfalls. In the name of the nation -- Fanon's critique of negritude -- A new humanism? The "problem" of humanism -- The liberated postcolonial -- The ethics of recognition -- Collective ethics -- Beyond national consciousness, towards universalism -- After Fanon.
• Sommario/riassunto: This clear, student-friendly guidebook considers Fanon's key texts and theories, looking at: postcolonial theory's appropriation of psychoanalysis; anxieties around cultural nationalisms and the rise of native consciousness; postcoloniality's relationship with violence and separatism.
• Titolo autorizzato: Frantz Fanon
• ISBN: 0-415-60296-3; 0-203-07318-5; 1-283-86062-7; 1-135-10250-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463055203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge critical thinkers.