{"product_id":"9780674043442","title":"Fanon's Dialectic of Experience","description":"With the flowering of postcolonialism, we return to Frantz Fanon, a leading theorist of the struggle against colonialism. In this thorough reinterpretation of Fanon's texts, Ato Sekyi-Otu ensures that we return to him fully aware of the unsuspected formal complexity and substantive richness of his work. A Caribbean psychiatrist trained in France after World War II and an eloquent observer of the effects of French colonialism on its subjects from Algeria to Indochina, Fanon was a controversial figure--advocating national liberation and resistance to colonial power in his bestsellers, \u003ci\u003eBlack Skin, White Masks\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wretched of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e But the controversies attending his life--and death, which some ascribed to the CIA--are small in comparison to those surrounding his work. Where admirers and detractors alike have seen his ideas as an incoherent mixture of Existentialism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis, Sekyi-Otu restores order to Fanon's oeuvre by reading it as one dramatic dialectical narrative. \u003ci\u003eFanon's Dialectic of Experience\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to see Fanon as a dramatist enacting a movement of experience--the drama of social agents in the colonial context and its aftermath--in a manner idiosyncratically patterned on the narrative structure of Hegel's \u003ci\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e. By recognizing the centrality of experience to Fanon's work, Sekyi-Otu allows us to comprehend this much misunderstood figure within the tradition of political philosophy from Aristotle to Arendt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews of this book: \u003cbr\u003e\"The goal of this often brilliant and always engaging book is to 'read Fanon's texts as though they formed one dramatic dialectical narrative'; the principal subject of this dramatic narrative, according to Sekyi-Otu, is 'political experience'. It is his deployment of a dialectical analysis of Fanon's 'dramatic personae' that permits Sekyi-Otu's fresh and insightful readings to take place.\" --Anthony C. Alessandrini, \u003ci\u003eMinnesota Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Ato Sekyi-Otu departs from the postmodernist paradigm and ushers in an alternative hermeneutic that primarily considers Fanon's texts as forming 'one dramatic dialectical narrative,' that is a narrative whose complexity is correlative of the intricate configurations of African social experience during the post-independent era...[His] book is an invaluable contribution that offers broader scope for a new appreciation of Fanon's political thinking.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Marc Mve Bekale, \u003ci\u003eRevue AFRAM Review\u003c\/i\u003e [UK] \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"[I]mportant...The author succeeds in...revealing the complexity and nuanced character of Fanon's thought.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Those who would dismiss or exult Fanon as the high priest of revolutionary violence will be chastened by this patient and completely convincing exposition of his work. Sekyi-Otu produces a reflexive, 'Gramscian' Fanon who, working as a 'detective of the politics of truth,' has produced insights that need to be taken over into the core of democratic political thought.\" --Paul Gilroy, University of London\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107076522224,"sku":"9780674043442","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780674043442_p0.jpg?v=1769845632","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780674043442","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}