Frantz Fanon
Pramod K. Nayar
Routledge
<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></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>