Fanon Today

Fanon TodayFanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth is about how new generations are discovering their mission of humanizing the world by claiming Fanon as a thinker for our times. Why Fanon, why now? For the wretched of the earth, conditions have not improved since Fanons time and in some cases they have worsened. Reason and revolt are inescapable, quite simply because, as Fanon wrote, it has become impossible for them to breathe, in more

Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth is about how new generations are discovering their mission of humanizing the world by claiming Fanon as a thinker for our times. Why Fanon, why now? For the wretched of the earth, conditions have not improved since FanonÕs time and in some cases they have worsened. Reason and revolt are inescapable, quite simply because, as Fanon wrote, it has become Ôimpossible for them to breathe, in more than one sense of the wordÕ. To mark the sixtieth anniversary of FanonÕs death (in 1961), the contributors to this book address the resonances of FanonÕs thinking on movements of resistance and mass revolutionary uprisings occurring in response to repression or state violence in Algeria, Brazil, Ghana, Ireland, Kenya, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, South Africa, Syria, Trinidad, USA and beyond. The driving force of each chapter of this unique collection of writings is Fanonian praxis, engaging with Fanon the thinker and Fanon the revolutionary.