Tag Archives: David Macey

fanon: enjoying the duel

Frantz Fanon. The theorist of revolution and a prophet scorned. An angry Isiah preaching to the choir? … …The repetitions, ambiguities, and facile rhetoric that mar certain chapters of The Wretched of the Earth are due largely to the circumstances … Continue reading

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fanon: attacking the high-minded

Frantz Fanon. The Prophet Scorned. Fifty years after his death, is this theorist of revolution still pertinent or are his writing a kind of surrealist fiction with himself asĀ  central protagonist? … …The final Fanonist influence concerns the search for … Continue reading

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fanon: love thy neighbor but dispatch him first

Frantz Fanon and his theory of revolution. Fifty years on the Wretched of the Earth may aspire to be a guide to yuppies and hipsters of the perplexed variety… …Frantz Fanon wrote that the urban equivalent of the peasantry was … Continue reading

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fanon: fetish for revolution

…Frantz Fanon’s final theme is the emergence of a new national culture. Using Algeria as an example, he tried to show that art forms were being changed by the war. Arab storytellers he says, replaced the formula “this all happened … Continue reading

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fanon: violence as cleansing agent

…He returned to Tunis, and, knowing that the remission he enjoyed from leukemia might end at any time, he finished his last and most important book, The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon worked twenty hours a day, interrupting his writing … Continue reading

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fanon: relegated to second class

Frantz Fanon. A prophet scorned… …When he had recovered, Fanon returned to Tunis and was appointed FLN ambassador to Accra. His job was to obtain arms and volunteers from Black African nations sympathetic to Algeria. He went at it with … Continue reading

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