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\u003cp\u003eFrantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period. A veritable \u0026#8220;intellect on fire,\u0026#8221; Fanon was a radical thinker with original theories on race, revolution, violence, identity and agency.\u003cbr /\u003e \u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is an excellent introduction to the ideas and legacy of Fanon. Gibson explores him as a truly complex character in the context of his time and beyond. He argues that for Fanon, theory has a practical task to help change the world. Thus Fanon\u0026#8217;s \u0026#8220;untidy dialectic,\u0026#8221; Gibson contends, is a philosophy of liberation that includes cultural and historical issues and visions of a future society. In a profoundly political sense, Gibson asks us to reevaluate Fanon\u0026#8217;s contribution as a critic of modernity and reassess in a new light notions of consciousness, humanism, and social change.\u003cbr /\u003e \u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a fascinating study that will interest undergraduates and above in postcolonial studies, literary theory, cultural studies, sociology, politics, and social and political theory, as well as general readers.\u003c/p\u003e |
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