Fanon, Subjectivity and Race


Bernice Donszelmann

Feb 20th
4.30pm
Lecture Theatre

Frantz Fanon’s essay ‘The Fact of Blackness’ (1952) explores how subjectivity is experienced as a crisis for the colonized subject within the context of colonial domination. Fanon’s thinking has been very influential within post-colonial theory and the lecture will introduce some of the key ideas presented in this text.

Key text: Frantz Fanon (2008), ‘The Fact of Blackness’, Black Skin, White Masks, London: Pluto Press, 82-108