'From A to X': John Berger's sparsely told love story Nov 1, 2008
Xavier quotes the Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano, Frantz Fanon, Hugo Chvez and Subcomandante Marcos, not to mention Cassandra Wilson and Johnny Cash. When A'ida addresses Xavier by a pet name that, she writes, translates in Greek as "chameleon," we might well wonder whether this is an encrypted message from one insurgent to another, or Berger's way of winking at us. (International Herald Tribune)
A reply to Faith Blum Oct 30, 2008
Faith: Malcolm X and Frantz Fanon had impact on Obama s thinking. Reply: Lots of nonradical people have read and been influenced by them. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
A Most Wanted Man Oct 3, 2008
No sooner does he introduce this cosy paternalistic world than he convulses it with the most unlikely of persons - an emaciated ex-jailbird of 23 who bears all the marks of those down-and-outs called by Frantz Fanon the Wretched of the Earth (Fanon's phrase, which is also the title of his famous 1961 book, appears four or five times in the action). Moving the edge to the centre, le Carre shows a traumatised vagrant sparking a firestorm of activity at the highest reaches of global intelligence. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Africa: Women Not Afraid of the Frontline Sep 11, 2008
Writing on women liberation veterans who defied patriarchal restrictions, the famous theoretician, Frantz Fanon, documented the role of Algerian women in the national war of independence, even highlighting the revolutionary role of prostitutes as fighters. In the Horn of Africa, the Eritrean People's Liberation Army (EPLA) is said to have comprised of about 40 per cent women fighters. (allAfrica.com)
Obama on His Veep Thinking Aug 22, 2008
Hard to picture most of them reading Frantz Fanon or saying, "Stokely Carmichael is in town, I'm going to go hear him.". I'm not sure that what I was exposed to was all that different from what Bill Clinton was exposed to. (Time.com)
Interview: Obama on His Veep Thinking Aug 21, 2008
Hard to picture most of them reading Frantz Fanon or saying, 'Stokely Carmichael is in town, I'm going to go hear him. . (Time.com)
Obama kept Law Review balanced Jun 23, 2008
" April, 1990 An unbylined note entitled "Rethinking (M)otherhood: Feminist Theory and State Regulation of Pregnancy" asks whether the state should consider the potential for endangering the fetus when pregnant women abuse drugs. The author suggests that the problem's positioning as a conflict between fetal and maternal rights is "both illegitimate and counterproductive," and concludes that policies should to be recast to expand, rather than restrict, women's reproductive rights. June 1990 This... (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Procrastination Lit May 13, 2008
Wideman's narrator, who is faltering in his effort to write a book about the psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon, creates for himself a double, Thomas, who is also attempting a book about Fanon. Concrete, Out of Sheer Rage, and Fanon are kindred works, built on unmet expectations: They are not what they were intended to be but, rather, the bitter fruits of displaced, often agonizing labors. (Slate)
Chroniclers of pain May 10, 2008
It is of course a truism today to say that the sexual fantasy of a dominant group or nation is filled by the colonised "other" (a point first made by Algerian writer Frantz Fanon). Although Oz would not subscribe to the view of Israel as a colonial power, none the less in My Michael he works this trope, so to speak, in spades. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
All rage and heart May 3, 2008
Yet, he says, "I could reach across boundaries and find things that joined us together: books and basketball." After dropping out of pre-med, he went to Washington State University in Pullman, where he was taken with Frantz Fanon and "leftist revolutionary rhetoric; I started believing that every moment of my life was about being oppressed". But a teacher gave him a poetry anthology that included Leslie Silko, James Welch, Adrian Louis and Joy Harjo. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
* In 'Half Nelson,' a student knows a teacher's secret Mar 21, 2008
He teaches black kids about Salvador Allende and probably has a couple of dog-eared Frantz Fanon books next to his copy of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. Early in Half Nelson, Fleck slips in a black-and-white news clip from 1964 of Mario Savio, a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leader of the Free Speech Movement, declaiming in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building that had become a flashpoint and battleground. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Your Opinions Mar 20, 2008
"Public business ought to be the business of the public." (Frantz Fanon, 1967). - Allen Lambert former two-term BoE member. (Ithaca Times, NY)
What Slate's Reading This Month Mar 18, 2008
Part wide-ranging meditation on Frantz Fanon, the Martinique-born revolutionary who studied the psychological effects of racial oppression, part autobiography, and part artistic credo, Wideman's first novel in a decade is fierce, elusive, and exhilarating. It's an extended prose improvisation that blurs the boundary between fiction and history. (Slate)
Worse than fictionKenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o laments election unrest Jan 11, 2008
Frantz Fanon, the intellectual visionary of the Third World, had long ago warned us of the dangers of the ideology of regionalism preached by an elite whose money can buy them safe residence in any part of a country. Political tensions have brought ethnic divisions to the surface. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'412' literary festival takes year off; to return in '08 Nov 27, 2007
As the title indicates, it takes the life of Frantz Fanon, an author from Martinique, essayist, psychoanalyst and revolutionary, as its inspiration. This festival continues. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
African Renaissance Sep 26, 2007
The Renewal and Rebirth of a Continent. "The brighter day is rising upon Africa...Yes the regeneration of Africa belongs to this new and powerful period. The African people...possess a common fundamental sentiment which is everywhere manifest, crystallizing itself into one common controlling idea...The regeneration of Africa means that a new and unique civilization is soon to be added to the world.". (Suite101.com)
The Netroots' Missed Opportunity Aug 24, 2007
In Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Frantz Fanon, Mao Zedong, and Ho Chi Minh, the New Left saw blueprints for the revolution it desired at home. Tom Hayden and Staughton Lynd visited Hanoi, and Stokely Carmichael moved to West Africa, where he took the name Kwame Toure in honor of the leaders who had brought independence to Ghana and Guinea. (New Republic)
A Japanese, born in the US of A Jul 19, 2007
It was only in my late 20s, after reading authors like Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin, that I began to question all this. My trip to Japan and my writing of a memoir about that trip helped precipitate a change in the way I identified myself - as a person of color, as a Japanese-American. (Asia Times Online)
Majavu: Reviewing Fanon May 16, 2007
Derek Hook (2004) argues that Frantz Fanons greatest source of originality as a postcolonial theorist lay in the fact that Fanon combined psychology and politics in his analysis of colonial problems, national liberation and social revolution ... Frantz Fanon and the psychology of oppression. (Zmag.org)
Wittner: Africa & Pacifists Mar 20, 2007
Advocates of armed struggle, such as Frantz Fanon, were also on hand, and played a role in the conference proceedings. Nonetheless, the pacifists emerged with considerable support. (Zmag.org)
Ahmadinejad hostage to bazaar politics Feb 3, 2007
Shariati's thoughts were profoundly influenced by his affiliation with Sorbonne University, Marxism, Sartre and French author and essayist Frantz Fanon. His lectures in Tehran University to ardent followers like Ahmadinejad, until his tragic death in his early 40s at the hands of the shah's secret police, focused on popular revolts against "foreign domination, internal deceit, the power of the feudal lords and wealthy capitalists" (to quote from Shariati's classic essay "Red Shi'ism vs Black... (Asia Times Online)
Terretta: Wizard of the Crow Jan 26, 2007
Through the actions of Aburirias governmental leaders, Ngugi, echoing Frantz Fanon, reveals the psychological state of postcolonial nations as one of insecurity and empty mimicry born of a desire to overcompensate for the humiliation of a colonial past. Forced by colonialism a period of frenzied determination to deny the other any attribute of humanity. (Zmag.org)
Rosenfeld: Jewish Like Me Jan 23, 2007
I began to revisit Jewish history and radical Jewish thought as well, reading anti-colonial theorists like Frantz Fanon. At this time I was moving away from Marxism and into anarchist thought, growing increasingly critical of the state as an institution. (Zmag.org)
