This first collection of essays specifically devoted to Fanon's Black Skin, White Mask offers a wide range of interpretations of the text by leading scholars in a number of disciplines. Chapters deal with Fanon's Martinican heritage, ideas of race and racism and new humanism, Fanon and Sartre, representations of Blacks and Jews, and the psychoanalysis of race, gender and violence.

About the Author(s)

Max Silverman

Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

Preface * Chronology * Introduction--Max Silverman * Adieu foulard. Adieu madras--David Macey * Where to begin? The commencement in 'Peau noire, masques blancs' and in creolisation--Françoise Vergès * Colonial racisms in the ‘métropole’: reading 'Peau noire, masques blancs' in context--Jim House * Frantz Fanon and the Black-Jewish imaginary--Bryan Cheyette * The European knows and does not know: Fanon’s response to Sartre--Robert Bernasconi * Reflections on the human question--Max Silverman * Children of violence--Vicky Lebeau * En moi: Frantz Fanon and René Maran--David Marriott * Notes on contributors