Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks': New Interdisciplinary Essays

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks': New Interdisciplinary Essays
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Max Silverman
SeriesTexts in Culture
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:200
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreLiterary studies - general
ISBN/Barcode 9780719064494
ClassificationsDewey:808.888
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 1 December 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

First published in 1952, Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks is one of the most important anti-colonial works of the post-war period. It is both a profound critique of the conscious and unconcious ways in which colonialism brutalises the colonised and a passionate cry from deep within a black body alienated by the colonial system and in search of liberation from it. This volume is the first collection of essays specifically devoted to Fanon's text. It offers a wide range of interpretations of the text by leading scholars in a number of disciplines. Chapters deal with Fanon's Martinican heritage, Fanon and Creolism, ideas of race and racism and new humanism, Fanon and Sartre, representations of Blacks and Jews, and the psychoanalysis of race, gender and violence. Contributors offer new ways of reading the text and the volume as a whole constitutes an important contribution to the growing field of Fanon studies. -- .

Author Biography

Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds -- .