Fanonian Practices in South Africa From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo
by Gibson, Nigel C.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-10-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Fanonian Practices in South Africaexamines Frantz Fanon's relevance to contemporary South African politics, and by extension, research on postcolonial Africa and the tragic development of postcolonies. Here leading Fanon scholar Nigel C. Gibson offers theoretically informed historical analysis, providing crucial scholarly insights into the circumstances that led to the current hegemony of neoliberalism in South Africa.
Author Biography
Nigel C. Gibson is director of the Honors Program at Emerson College, USA, where he teaches postcolonial, global and African studies, and he is a visiting research fellow at the School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His many published works include Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination, which won the 2009 Caribbean Philosophical Association's Frantz Fanon Prize.
Table of Contents
Amandla is still awethu: Fanonian practices in post-apartheid South Africa * Biko’s Fanonian practices * The pitfalls of South Africa’s liberation * The new ‘reality of the nation’: The rich and the poor * Unfinished struggles for freedom: The birth of a new shack dwellers’ movement * Xenophobia or a new humanism? Fanon in the shacks* In place of a conclusion
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