Fanon Transformed? The New Writings
In this talk Robert Young will be discussing the new volume of writings by Frantz Fanon, edited by Jean Khalfa and the speaker, the first new material by Fanon to be published in over 60 years. Professor Young will argue that its contribution is to place Fanon’s psychiatry at the theoretical centre of his work, enabling a clear connection to be draw between the early work of Black Skin, White Masks (1952), and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). For Fanon, colonialism, like madness, was most meaningfully conceptualized as a destructuration of consciousness and as a pathology of freedom.
Date: 30 May 2017, 17:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2017)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organisers: David Priestland (St Edmund Hall), Professor Marilyn Booth (Al Saud Professor, Magdalen College), Dr Faisal Devji
Organiser contact email address: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Maxime Dargaud-Fons