Four articles which examine the intellectual legacy of Franz Fanon, forty years after his death. Notes, b/w photos, 252pp, UK. LAWRENCE & WISHART.

Study of Franz Fanon as a political thinker and political sociologist of the African experience. Index, bib, notes, viii, 262pp, NIGERIA. FOURTH DIMENSION.

An introduction the ideas and legacy of Franz Fanon which re-evaluates his contribution as a critic of modernity and post colonialism. Index, bib, notes, xi, 252pp, UK. POLITY PRESS, 0745622615

Features extracts from each of Fanon's major works including Black Skin, White Masks, Studies in a Dying Colonialism, Toward the African Revolution and The Wretched of the Earth. The introductory essay by Azzedine Haddour contextualizes Fanon and provides a comprehensive summary of critical perspectives on his writings. This fully rounded critical introduction to Fanon's work will appeal to students and teachers in postcolonial studies, cultural studies, political theory, psychoanalysis, literary theory, race studies and anyone interested in the life and writings of one of the world's foremost pioneers of black liberation. xxv, 206pp, UK. PLUTO PRESS.

Based on extensive and original research, this is the most complete and objective biography of Fanon yet written. It chips away the myths that have grown up around him and reveals Fanon to be a complex figure. Macey places Fanon in the context of the French Caribbean, with its history of slavery and racism, and traces his intellectual career as a political thinker and psychiatrist with great care, setting it against the background of post-war French culture. Maps, notes, bib, index. xvi, 640pp UK GRANTA, 1862074585

2001 Paperback

First English translation of this biography by Alice Cherki, who worked closely with Fanon at the psychiatric hospital in Blida and then later for the Algerian cause in Tunisia. This book is a record of an epoch, a life, and a body of work often viewed as inadmissible. Index, notes, 255pp, USA. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Nearly forty years after his death, social philosopher Frantz Fanon (1925 1961) whose revolutionary works The Wretched of the Earth, Toward the African Revolution, and Black Skin, White Masks spurred an African intellectual awakening. This collection of essays opens with an authoritative biography which corrects fallacious assertions about Fanon's life, situating him in Marxism, Negritude, Pan Africanism, and the historical context of postwar decolonization, specifically the Algerian revolution. Section one is highlighted by extended discussions of Marx, Fanon's theories on sophisticated forms of cultural racism, and true liberation. The next section examines Fanon's humanist philosophy, his philosophical and geographical journeys, and his attitude toward the necessity of revolution. Also included is Homi Bhabha's well known essay Remembering Fanon, which contemplates the seeming rejection of Fanon in Britain in the 1970s, in contrast to his major following in America. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Edward Said discuss the importance of the 1980s' and 1990s' cultural and literary debates on Fanon. Gates notes that Fanon has been reinstated not as a global theorist of third world revolution, but instead as a critic of English writers and British romanticists. Benita Parry reexamines African nationalism and liberation, and sheds new light on Fanon's questions of identity and agency. Bib, 466pp, USA. PROMETHEUS BOOKS. 1573927090

'The greatest masterpiece of anti-colonial struggle...' Jean-Paul Sartre. A study of national culture and imperialism. 255pp. UK. PENGUIN, 0141186542