Author

Publication

2003 - Polity, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing6969280

Classifications

  • DDC300.92
  • LCCCT2628.F35G53 2003

Description

"This book is an excellent introduction to the ideas and legacy of Fanon. Gibson explores him as a truly complex character in the context of his time and beyond. He argues that for Fanon, theory has a practical task to help change the world. Thus Fanon's "untidy dialectic," Gibson contends, is a philosophy of liberation that includes cultural and historical issues and visions of a future society in a profoundly political sense. Gibson asks us to reevaluate Fanon's contribution as a critic of modernity and reassess in a new light notions of consciousness, humanism, and social change." "This is a study that will interest undergraduates and above in postcolonial studies, literary theory, cultural studies, sociology, politics, and social and political theory, as well as general readers."--Jacket.

Subjects

Topics

RacismBlacks320.5/092Black peopleRace identityLiterary criticismSemiotics & theory

Series Statement

  • Key contemporary thinkers

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