Frantz Fanon

Azzedine Haddour is Professor in Francophone and Comparative Literature at University College London. He is the author of Frantz Fanon, Postcolonialism and the Ethics of Difference (MUP, 2019) and Colonial Myths: History and Narrative (MUP, 2001), editor of The Fanon Reader (2006), translator of a collection of Sartre’s essays, Colonialism and Neocolonialism (Routledge 2001 and Routledge Classics 2006) and author of various articles on Fanon and postcolonial theory.

• Introduction1. Colonisation Medicine and Colonial Biopolitics2. Torture Unveiled: Rereading Fanon and Bourdieu in the Context of May 19583. The Battle of the Veil and of the Waves: Colonial and Anti-Colonial Radio Transmission4. Republic of Cousins or Citizens5. The Uses of Medicine: Colonial and Revolutionary6. Torture and Gender: Interrogation, Resettlement and Pacification7. Fanon, the French Liberal Left and the Colonial ConsensusConclusion

'Few works have more creatively and comprehensively explored Fanon’s perspective on gender relations, the family, and women’s resistance to sexual violence. It provides an outstanding examination of the historical and political circumstances that shaped his least discussed book, Studies in a Dying Colonialism'