Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms [Hardcover]

Denean T. Sharpley-Whiting (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0847686388 | ISBN-13: 978-0847686384 | Publication Date: December 29, 1997

Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms represents a bold examination of previous feminist criticisms of Fanon and argues that Fanon's writings on women and resistance provide the formative kernels of a liberating praxis for women existing under colonial and neocolonial oppression. Sharpley-Whiting skillfully brings together approaches from a broad range of academic fields, including critical race theory, literary and cultural criticism, and psychoanalysis as she assesses the relevance of Fanon's theories of oppression to a feminist politics of resistance.

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This work takes feminist critiques of Fanon to a new level. It achieves this goal through its close attention to the subtlety of Fanon's dialectics, its scholarship, and its good judgment. Her book is not only a valuable contribution to Fanon studies, but by far and away the best feminist reading of Fanon to date. (Henry, Paget )

Sharpley-Whiting makes an exciting contribution to the Marxian concept of revolution-in-permanence . . . (Laurie Cashdan )

A well-articulated and much needed comprehensive. (Femihumanist )

About the Author

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is assistant professor of French and African American Studies at Purdue University. She is the author of Black Female Bodies, White Male Imaginations: Nineteenth-Century French Narratives on Black Femininity and co-editor of Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) and Frantz Fanon: A Critical Reader.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 198 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (December 29, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847686388
• ISBN-13: 978-0847686384
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms, October 19, 2009

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This review is from: Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms (Paperback)

This is a long overdue re-assessment of Fanon's political and philosophical contribution to struggles for freedom in the societies of the South, particularly in Africa from a constructive feminist perspective. Given the trend towards revisionism of liberation struggles within the US and European academy generally (whether through postmodernism or simply as an expression of conservatism) this book fills a necessary and critical gap in the development of discourses and conversations about legitimate colonial and post-colonial struggles and their political re-narration within societies that are re-defining themselves...a great contribution to courageous, radical scholarship...and a necessary text for anyone teaching Fanon and Africa in the contemporary moment....

Patricia McFadden, Distinguised Visiting Professor, Women's and Gender studies, Syracuse University, New York - currently teaching a course on 'Revolutionary Struggles in Africa' from a radical African feminist perspective