Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for theatre developed during the years that he was studying medicine, and in 1949 he wrote the plays The Drowning Eye (L’Œil se noie), and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles). This first English translation of the works gives us a Fanon at his most lyrical, experimental and provocative.
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Frantz Fanon: Works Cited

General Introduction, by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young

Fanon, Revolutionary Playwright, by Robert J.C. Young
1 The Drowning Eye
2 Parallel Hands

Frantz Fanon’s Library and Life
Franz Fanon’s Library
Key dates of Fanon’s chronology

Index

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The Drowning Eye (L’Oeil se noie), and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles), both written in 1949, are the first English translations of Frantz Fanon's plays which were previously thought to be lost.
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The first English translation of Frantz Fanon's plays thought to be lost forever

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350126572
Publisert
2020-10-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
360 gr
Høyde
214 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Oversetter

Om bidragsyterne

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Martinique-born psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer. He was the author of classic works such as Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). He was one of the most significant anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist and anti-racist thinkers of the 20th Century.

Jean Khalfa is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Trinity College Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Poetics of the Antilles (2016) and an upcoming work on Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. He is also the editor of the first complete edition of Michel Foucault's History of Madness (2006).


Robert J. C. Young, FBA, is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University, USA. He is the author of White Mythologies (1990), Colonial Desire (1995), Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (2001), The Idea of English Ethnicity (2008) and Empire, Colony, Postcolony (2015).

Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and translated several works by Jacques Rancière, including Dissensus (2015) and The Lost Thread (2016).