![]() It was not the first time that Confiant wrote about great Martinicans-he had already published a now-infamous book on Aimé Césaire. In this context, one can read Raphaël Confiant’s L’ Insurrection de l’ âme, published with a local press (Caraïbéditions), as an attempt to change Fanon’s reception in the Francophone Antilles. Fanon’s destiny is also an example of diversion in that he became the adoptive son of another country, Algeria. The fact that Fanon is known in the wider world and not so known on the islands illustrates this resistance to seeing one’s own creativity and productivity. In his Caribbean Discourse, Édouard Glissant tries to explain why that is and cites Fanon as the greatest case of a typically (French) Caribbean attitude of “diversion,” that is, the inability to directly connect to and live the surrounding reality. Paradoxically, based on his theories, the one place where Fanon seems to be least known is his native Martinique. These publications alone have spurred a substantial amount of research ranging from studies on Fanon himself to the development of concepts in the social sciences and the humanities. He has earned his reputation through three books only: Peau noire, masques blancs (1952), L’ An V de la révolution algérienne (1959), and Les Damnés de la terre (1961). Yet he is not a literary writer, and he did not publish much. He is by far the most read Francophone author (meaning from the former colonies writing in French) in the world. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. (Paper € 17.00)ĭavid Marriott, Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being. Coaraze, France: L’ Amourier Éditions, 2017. Marie-Jeanne Manuellan, Sous la dictée de Fanon. Edited and complied by Jean Khalfa & Robert J.C. Young, translated by Steven Corcoran. (Paper € 21.30)įrantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom. Frantz Fanon: Vie et mort du guerrier-silex. Raphaël Confiant, L’ Insurrection de l’ âme.
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