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

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: Max Silverman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 12/01/2012
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d
ISBN13: 9780719064494
ISBN10: 071906449X
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American
- History | Africa | General
- Literary Criticism | European | French

About the Author

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