Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change

Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change

by Gavin Arnall
Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change

Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change

by Gavin Arnall

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Overview

The problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon’s writings. As a philosopher, psychiatrist, and revolutionary, Fanon was deeply committed to theorizing and instigating change in all of its facets. Change is the thread that ties together his critical dialogue with Hegel, Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche and his intellectual exchange with Césaire, Kojève, and Sartre. It informs his analysis of racism and colonialism, négritude and the veil, language and culture, disalienation and decolonization, and it underpins his reflections on Martinique, Algeria, the Caribbean, Africa, the Third World, and the world at large.

Gavin Arnall traces an internal division throughout Fanon’s work between two distinct modes of thinking about change. He contends that there are two Fanons: a dominant Fanon who conceives of change as a dialectical process of becoming and a subterranean Fanon who experiments with an even more explosive underground theory of transformation. Arnall offers close readings of Fanon’s entire oeuvre, from canonical works like Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth to his psychiatric papers and recently published materials, including his play, Parallel Hands. Speaking both to scholars and to the continued vitality of Fanon’s ideas among today’s social movements, this book offers a rigorous and profoundly original engagement with Fanon that affirms his importance in the effort to bring about radical change.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780231550437
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 08/18/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Gavin Arnall is assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the translator of Emilio de Ípola’s Althusser, The Infinite Farewell (2018).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Two Fanons
1. The Psychiatric Papers and Parallel Hands
2. Black Skin, White Masks
3. Writings on the Algerian Revolution
4. The Wretched of the Earth (Part I)
5. The Wretched of the Earth (Part II)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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