Romanticism reconsidered: Fanon, reciprocity and revolution (on Fanon’s ninetieth birthday)
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Date
2015
Authors
Gibson, Nigel C.
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University of the Free State
Abstract
A romantic figure of “Third World” revolution and Black liberation, Frantz Fanon is
often considered an advocate of violence as liberation therapy. Questioning the idea
of Fanon as a romantic with an a priori set of ideas that he simply applied to new
situations, I discuss the importance of contextualising Fanon’s work historically and
dialectically. In addition, I am interested in how Fanon’s psychiatry papers, written
while he was practising as a doctor in North Africa, provide another terrain to help
elucidate Fanon’s active involvement as a situational critique.
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Fanon, Frantz, Revolution
Citation
Gibson, N. C. (2015). Romanticism reconsidered: Fanon, reciprocity and revolution (on Fanon's ninetieth birthday). Acta Academica, 47(2), 1-18.