Beschreibung:
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.
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