In this segment, we explore Frantz Fanon’s confrontation with Hegel and his master-slave dialectic from the section titled “The Negro and Hegel” in Peau noire, masques blancs / Black Skin, White Masks (1952), as well as the many readings of Fanon in Black radical studies.
Core Readings
Frantz Fanon, “The Negro and Hegel” in Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (New York: Grove, 1967 [1952]).
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Richard Philcox, preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, foreword by Homi K. Bhabha (Grove Press, 2005); translation of Fanon, Les Damnés de la terre (1961)
Bruno Bosteels, “Elements for a Critique of Political Ontology” (forthcoming).
Additional Readings
Charles Villet, “Hegel and Fanon on the Question of Mutual Recognition: A Comparative Analysis,” The Journal of Pan African Studies (2011): 40-51.