Frantz Fanon

<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> </p> <li>Postcolonial theory’s appropriation of psychoanalysis</li> <p> </p> <li>Anxieties around cultural nationalisms and the rise of native consciousness</li> <p> </p> <li>Postcoloniality’s relationship with violence and separatism</li> <p> </p> <li>New humanism and ideas of community. </li> </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>