Frantz Fanon: Sa vie, son combat, son travail (2004)

[Dave Monroe]

Frantz Fanon: Sa vie, son combat, son travail (Frantz Fanon : His
Life, His Struggle, His Work)

Friday, February 6, 2009 - 9:00 PM - Free Admission
Sunday, February 8, 2009 - 3:00 PM - Free Admission

MILWAUKEE PREMIERE

Frantz Fanon

Synopsis: Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist from Martinique, became a
radical spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French
colonialism. Embittered by his experience with racism in the French
Army, he gravitated to radical politics, existentialism and the
philosophy of black consciousness known as negritude. His books Black
Skins, White Masks, The Wretched of the Earth) probe the
psychopathology of colonization and the trauma of decolonization,
inspiring liberation movements for more than four decades. As a doctor
in Algeria, Fanon cared for victims and perpetrators alike, producing
case notes on the psychic traumas of colonial war. Expelled from
Algeria, Fanon wrote for a rebel newspaper in Tunisia and founded
Africa's first psychiatric clinic. The film traces the short and
intense life of one of the great thinkers of the 20th century.
Presented as part of The Tournées Festival.

Cheikh Djemal, Martinique/France/Algeria/Tunisia, DVD, 88 mn, 2004

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"The explosion will not happen today.  It is too soon ... or too
late." (Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Mask, p. 7)

Cf. ...

"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there
is nothing to compare it to now." (GR, Pt. I, p. 3)

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