Frantz Fanon

[Ostrinski]

What does everyone think about him? I imagine the ML's draw a lot of influence from him because of his analysis of national liberation, but what do the others think of him?

[Franz Fanonipants]

he changed my life

[Ostrinski]

How so?

Also, how do you pronounce his name :blushing:?

[Franz Fanonipants]

How so?

Also, how do you pronounce his name :blushing:?

Fr-an-z Fa-no-n is how i do it but it might be wrong.

basically he connected colonial structures to the gangs, drugs, and activities of the lumpen i grew up around. i would argue he may validate the aforementioned a little TOO much but his work on how colonialism impacts individual self-comprehension is super interesting.

[hatzel]

I don't think anybody - Marxist or otherwise - can overlook Fanon, no. There are certainly issues that have to be seriously addressed, most obviously his existentialism and his humanism, yet his contribution is immensely valuable. Simply enough. Countless thinkers have already succeeded in drawing this contribution beyond the limits of his time, in fact, one need only integrate these developments satisfactorily into a broader radical framework...

[Igor]

Fr-an-z Fa-no-n is how i do it but it might be wrong.

It's a French name, so the final n would go unpronounced, just a long o there.

[The Douche]

Fanon has had a pretty profound effect on my politics.

[o well this is ok I guess]

It's a French name, so the final n would go unpronounced, just a long o there. according to dictionary.com, it's prounced "oh-mar"
which is
huh

[NewLeft]

Never read his work, suggestions?

[The Douche]

Never read his work, suggestions?

Black Skin, White Masks

The Wretched of the Earth

[blake 3:17]

Just tried to start a decent thread on him: http://www.revleft.com/vb/fanon-and-humanism-t167762/index.html

It's pronounced with the final N -- not Fan Oe ..

Homi Bhaba has a very interesting reading of Fanon. I have drawn a lot on the following http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bhabha/location2.html
Fanon suggests that 'there is not merely one Negro, there are Negroes'.

[Ostrinski]

Black Skin, White Masks

The Wretched of the EarthThese are the two that I've read. Are A Dying Colonialism and Toward the African Revolution worthy reads?

[blake 3:17]

These are the two that I've read. Are A Dying Colonialism and Toward the African Revolution worthy reads?

I would think it worth spending more time on the secondary literature. I used to live with a Fanon scholar & they focused on the two main books.

Ato Sekyi-Otu`s Fanon's Dialectic of Experience sparked a lot of conversation here.

[The Douche]

These are the two that I've read. Are A Dying Colonialism and Toward the African Revolution worthy reads?

Haven't read them.

[Igor]

according to dictionary.com, it's prounced "oh-mar"
which is
huh

well wtf

[bcbm]

These are the two that I've read. Are A Dying Colonialism and Toward the African Revolution worthy reads?

i thought 'a dying colonialism' was pretty interesting, especially if you've read other stuff about the algerian revolution

[The Douche]

i thought 'a dying colonialism' was pretty interesting, especially if you've read other stuff about the algerian revolution

Interestingly enough, it was White Skin, Black Masks, which kind of lead me towards more of the communist left/nihilist communist positions. But I think I kind of extrapolated Fanon's commentary on the way colonized people adapt colonial culture, to the way that people under capitalism adapt capitalist culture/capitalist absorbs everything including movements against it.

I'm sure Fanon would be pissed.

[Rafiq]

I'm unfamiliar with his works, but by the looks of a simple Wikipedia page, he seems to be someone I'd probably enjoy reading.

[Franz Fanonipants]

I'm unfamiliar with his works, but by the looks of a simple Wikipedia page, he seems to be someone I'd probably enjoy reading.

he's ambivalent on islam you probably would not enjoy

[Dr Doom]

is black skin, white masks available to read online somewhere?

[Franz Fanonipants]

is white skin, black masks available to read online somewhere?

cut it and reverse it

maybe marxists.org ?

[hatzel]

is white skin, black masks available to read online somewhere?

What's that? Second result on Google (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmelodypanosian.info%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F05%2FFrantz-Fanon-Black-skin-White-masks.pdf&ei=AWhFT_itJee_0QXUoNn0Aw&usg=AFQjCNH3M4tzgRJcLOY45EdpjieIBqoMQw), you say? Okay then...

[Dr Doom]

cut it and reverse it

maybe marxists.org ?

haha oh dear thats embarrassing but at least cmoney did the same shit above me. nah marxists.org aint got it.

[The Douche]

haha oh dear thats embarrassing but at least cmoney did the same shit above me. nah marxists.org aint got it.

Oof. Hahaha:blushing:

[Rafiq]

he's ambivalent on islam you probably would not enjoy

What?

[Cirno(9)]

Reading Black Skin, White Masks right now, it's pretty amazing.

We shall have no mercy for the former governors, the former missionaries.
To us, the man who adores the Negro is as "sick" as the man who abominates him.
Conversely, the black man who wants to turn his race white is as miserable as he who preaches hatred for the whites.
In the absolute, the black is no more to be loved than the Czech, and truly what is to be done is to set man free.

[Red Joe]

There's a decent biographical film about him available on YouTube. The title is "Black Skin White Masks", though it covers all of his works.