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David Marriott Mini-Seminar, "Whither Fanon"

The work of Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) has had, and continues to have, an immense influence throughout the humanities and social sciences. In particular, his work on racism, revolution, and decolonization has been studied, applied, debated and carried forward by scholars, activists and artists from a wide variety of perspectives: politics, philosophy, sociology, psychoanalysis, art and literature. The seminar is organized around two objectives. The first is to study key notions and tropes that continue to be often poorly understood by many of Fanon's critics and followers. The second is to provide a careful rereading of key notions such as blackness, sovereignty, abjection and resistance from a range of perspectives, with particular reference to the languages of literature and film. It is to be hoped that this will give us a better appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of his work as well as its continued resonance.