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casparb 's review for:
Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon
I read Wretched of the Earth a few years ago - I think I was 18 and it had a considerable impact at the time, particularly due to the last chapter, Fanon’s clinical notes.
So I was surprised by BSWM. I feel it is the better text of the two, when taken as a whole, but they have quite dramatically different aims & approaches. It’s difficult to pin down, since FF is quite rigidly psychoanalytic, yet seems to pull a kind of metaphysics of race from that. He refers almost constantly to Hegel, not always perfectly it seems, but perhaps it is too early for me to say that.
Joyously, I put BS;WM into practice almost immediately. More on that soon.
So this seems to be the more academic text of his big two - more practically applicable in cultural terms.
Anyway this has been p long winded for reasons of I’ve been thinking about it past few days without immediately commenting due to internet reasons. pls try this book.
So I was surprised by BSWM. I feel it is the better text of the two, when taken as a whole, but they have quite dramatically different aims & approaches. It’s difficult to pin down, since FF is quite rigidly psychoanalytic, yet seems to pull a kind of metaphysics of race from that. He refers almost constantly to Hegel, not always perfectly it seems, but perhaps it is too early for me to say that.
Joyously, I put BS;WM into practice almost immediately. More on that soon.
So this seems to be the more academic text of his big two - more practically applicable in cultural terms.
Anyway this has been p long winded for reasons of I’ve been thinking about it past few days without immediately commenting due to internet reasons. pls try this book.