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Adapted from a special issue of Literature Interpretation Theory, Helene Cixous: Critical Impressions explores one of the most significant voices in contemporary literature. Bringing together prominent critics from around the globe to explore the range and impact of Helene Cixous' work, this collection of essays approaches Cixous from the perspectives of feminist theory, materialist criticism, biographical criticism, and reader- response methodologies. ... Read more

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Memoir of a Baghdad childhood . . .
Published in another edition as "Mothballs," this is a coming of age story set in Baghdad during the 1950s. The author reveals the experience of growing up female in impressionistic vignettes, sometimes soaring into sequences of magical realism. She opens a window for western readers into a Muslim world where women band together in their often sequestered lives, surviving in an alien patriarchy that both limits and emboldens them.

Huda, the young girl at the center of this story, is not easily intimidated by the circumstances of her world, growing up female, her mother dying of tuberculosis and her father a police officer whose moods swing wildly between sentimentality and violence, taking a second wife and deserting his family, sending his first wife away and leaving sister, son and daughter in the care of his mother. Huda's younger brother Adil, a sensitive soul, is lovingly drawn, and her young aunt waits for a proposal of marriage that comes from a man who also, it turns out, is given to desertion. There are portraits of Huda's friends, including a lame girl and a boy who wins her heart, only to be drawn into perilous political unrest.

The most memorable scene for me is her reunion with her father, an officer at the prison in Karbala, and then his coming undone as others are promoted before him. You get a sense of the mystery of men, who are driven in this culture by social forces that both elevate them above women and destroy them. Vivid in its descriptions of scenes and people, the book represents an attempt to capture memories, fixing them in the naphtalene (mothballs) of the title, as time and circumstances move on, changing everything forever.

Naphtalene by Alia Mamdouh
The writing (in translation) is beautiful. There's no clearly defined plot. We share the experiences and memories of Huda, a strong-minded young girl growing up in Baghdad in the 1950s. We experience the smells and sounds with Huda, the smells of food and cigarettes, and the sweat and comfort of her grandmother's hugs. The beginnings of protest are hinted at as one man of the neighborhood is taken away to prison for handing out subversive leaflets. We read of the tragedies of Huda's family, and their stories are told in a mystical way. It's a beautiful book.

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This book is an intriguing and illuminating look at a young girl's coming of age in Baghdad. Fiesty tomboy Huda is the narrator who considers herself "more boy than girl." She clashes with her parents, particularly her father, as well as other adults in authority whom she encounters, as she resists being slotted into the roles of a young Iraqi woman. In this book, the women are mostly strong, feminist figures, while the men are weak-willed and childish, prone to temper tantrums.The narrator is engaging and sympathetic.

The only problem I had with this book was the frequent switch from first to second person and back again. That made it hard to follow the rhythm of Huda's narrative. ... Read more

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i dug this book
This is the kind of book you can read by opening to a page and reading or cover to cover.. little jewels shaped like words everywhere.

A most precious pillow-book
The type of literature that recreates in the symbolic, exploring the unconscious in an extremely poetic manner, this book, opened on any page at random, will undoubtedly widen your understanding of love and take youwhere you dream to have lived it. Source of inspiration for thoroughintrospection in the most awe-inspiring landscapes of the soul, thematerial mingles with the word to carry you where the body alone cannottake you. An exercise of the feminist language. Some might have got boredby reading it in a conventional way. But, using it with that etherealwisdom that comes from the debris of unbridled passion, it might prove tobe your most precious pillow-book. ... Read more

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ease and assist
The Insister of Jacques Derrida is the perfect title for this book. Cixous really is the in-sister for Derrida. She is in on all of the his in-jokes and he even shares his dreams with her. Some of these dreams are about large dogs, often with large teeth, sometimes with their large teeth in his hand. Another dream allows him to bask in the satisfaction of Chirac for Derrida's having parked without complications a large Boeing airplane in a nice out of the way spot in the city. What becomes evident in this book is how important Derrida's ear was to his own and Cixous' career, as well as how mutually affectionate and stimulating this relationship was for the two of them. He is always listening, engaging his interlocutor, and his French is without fault. Cixous, for her part, does her best to keep Derrida's sentences alive and in this work she gives thoughtful focus to three works: , , and . Much of the writing is moving but still the sharing is largely hermetic. As in most deconstructive writing there is much fervid writing abounding in selected word roots. In this work -sist-, as in insist, persist, sister, flourishes, as does a meditation on mochte and mag from German. One will also find neologisms such as toolateo' clock and Freuderridian among others. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 7813 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Of cookpots, kettles and codes: language and libido in Cristina Fernández Cubas as read through Hélène Cixous.
Author: Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci
Publication: Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea (Magazine/Journal)
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Volume: 29Issue: 1Page: 83(24)

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Chapters: Marquis de Condorcet, Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, Françoise D'eaubonne, Hélène Cixous, Bracha L. Ettinger, Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin, Louise Weiss, Inessa Armand, Monique Wittig, Luce Irigaray, Flora Tristan, Fadela Amara, Nathalie Lemel, François Poullain de La Barre, Ovidie, Chantal Chawaf, Catherine Clément, Marie Dentière, Geneviève Fraisse, Martine Billard, Marguerite Durand, Élisabeth Badinter, Claudine Monteil, Gisèle Halimi, Pauline Roland, Christine Delphy, Benoîte Groult, Marie Souvestre, Nelly Roussel, Jules Allix, Hélène de Beauvoir, Cécile Brunschvicg, Louise-Félicité de Kéralio, Colette Guillaumin, Eugénie Niboyet, Eugenie Potonie-Pierre. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 155. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bracha L. Ettinger (born March 23, 1948), also known as Bracha Ettinger, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Hebrew: , -, is an artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst. Ettinger is based in Paris and Tel Aviv and working mainly in Europe in art as well as academic fields. Bracha Ettinger was born in Tel Aviv. She received her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1976. She then moved to London and studied, trained and worked between 1976 and 1979 at the London Centre for Psychotherapy, the Tavistock Clinic and the Philadelphia Association with R. D. Laing. She returned to Israel in 1979 and worked at Shalvata Hospital. Ettinger, who painted and drew since early childhood, then decided to dedicate herself fully to painting and moved to Paris, where she lived and worked from 1981 to 2003. Alongside painting she began writing, and received a D.E.A. in Psychoanalysis from the University of Paris VII in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Aesthetics of Art from the University of Paris VIII in 1996. Her paintings eventu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14285621 ... Read more

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Chapters: Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, List of Thinkers Influenced by Deconstruction, Simon Critchley, Jacques Ehrmann, John D. Caputo Bibliography, Indeterminacy, Echographies of Television, Paul de Man, Bernard Stiegler, Deconstruction-And-Religion, Jean-Luc Nancy, Robert Magliola, Jean-François Lyotard, Trace, Différance, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Barbara Johnson, J. Hillis Miller, Mark C. Taylor, Death of the Author, Martin A. Hainz, Jacques Derrida Bibliography, John Caputo, Kojin Karatani, Avital Ronell, Geoffrey Bennington, the Resistance to Theory, Yale School, Friedrich Ulfers, Drucilla Cornell, of Grammatology, John Sallis, Always Already, Free Play, Geoffrey Hartman, Behind the Looking Glass, Oxford Literary Review, Christopher Norris, Hauntology, Werner Hamacher, Logocentrism, Anselm Haverkamp, Metaphysics of Presence, Positions, Author Function, Paulo Cesar Duque-Estrada, Phallogocentrism, Núcleo de Estudos Em Ética E Desconstrução, Deconstruction Therapy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 315. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jacques Derrida (French pronunciation: ) (15 July 1930 8 October 2004) was a French philosopher born in Algeria, who is known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous work has had a significant impact on literary theory and continental philosophy. Derrida was born on 15 July 1930, in El Biar (Algiers), then French Algeria, into a Sephardic Jewish family that became French in 1870 when the Crémieux Decree granted full French citizenship (Pied-Noir) to the indigenous Jews of French colonial Algeria. He was the third of five children. His parents, Aimé Derrida and Georgette Sultana Esther Safar, named him Jackie, supposedly after a Hollywood actor, though he would later adopt a more "correct" version of his first...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=53255 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Modern Humanities Research Association on April 1, 1999. The length of the article is 515 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Helene Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing.(Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Mairead Hanrahan
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1999
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 94Issue: 2Page: 552(1)

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Auteur cÉlÈbre d'une oeuvre multiforme et singuliÈre, HÉlÈne Cixous est surtout connue pour son thÉÂtre et ses Écrits sur la poÉtique de la diffÉrence sexuelle. Cette Étude traite pour la premiÈre fois d'une seule des fictions d'HÉlÈne Cixous, Portrait du soleil (1973). Elle tente d'expliciter le fonctionnement narratif et poÉtique et de relever les thÈmes et motifs essentiels de cette oeuvre en les mettant À l'Épreuve de la mÉtaphore solaire. Constatant une solaritÉ gÉnÉralisÉe, elle propose une ouverture sur l'ensemble de l'oeuvre d'HÉlÈne Cixous, en particulier son livre le plus rÉcent, O R, les lettres de mon pÈre (1997), et touche À la profonde motivation d'une Écriture.
Cette analyse, qui suit de prÈs le texte d'HÉlÈne Cixous, se dÉveloppe d'un chapitre À l'autre en entrant de plus en plus dans la complexitÉ des questions soulevÉes par le texte lui-mÊme. Elle tient compte du renouvellement critique et philosophique des annÉes 70 en France et ailleurs, dont la fiction de Cixous intÈgre les questionnements mais pour les dÉplacer et les transformer. Elle montre Également l'enracinement d'une oeuvre dans le vÉcu et dans l'Histoire.
Quant À l'impossible portrait du soleil que la fiction d'HÉlÈne Cixous essaie de tracer: il se manifeste À travers l'Évocation de la figure du pÈre, que l'on dÉcouvre partout prÉsente, liÉe À la mort et À l'expÉrience de la sÉparation, et dans l'autoportrait d'un sujet fÉminin, en train de se chercher À travers des histoires aussi bien fictionnelles que textuelles.

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Hélène Cixous: A Space for the Other - in BetweenForgetting, Remembering and Rewriting" is a study inintertextuality that examines the narrative positionof the Subject in relation to the Other in HélèneCixous's works: Or, les lettres de mon père (1997),Les Rêveries de la femme sauvage: scènes primitives(2000) and her writing on Clarice Lispector. Cixousrewrites the identity of the Subject/Other in such away that the boundaries between the two are blurred.The androgynous nature of the protagonists in herworks subverts the gender binary opposition bringingissues of plurality and culture to the fore in termsof subject identity. It analyzes the ramificationsthat the volatility of the Subject/Other positionshave for elements of autobiographical narrative.Cixous challenges us to question the roleof the "critic." The conclusion speculates on thepossibilities for change in terms of gender norms andthe impact that writing will have in bringing aboutsystemic changes in society ... Read more

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Chapters: Gustave Eiffel, Isabelle Adjani, Jacques Offenbach, Hélène Cixous, Patricia Kaas, Robert Schuman, Jean Loret, Puig Aubert, César Franck, Charles-Frédéric Reinhard, Maurice de Hirsch, Christian Wolff, Barbet Schroeder, Stéphane Hessel, Jacques de Reinach, Marie D'agoult, Wendelin Werner, Catherine Trautmann, Virginie Gervais, Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim, Lucien Muller, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Jean Paul Egide Martini, Aaron Alexandre, Élie Halévy, Guillaume-Lebrecht Petzold, Gérard Hausser, Maximilien Gardel, Hartwig Derenbourg, Jean-Baptiste Blache, Hermann Vogel, Fabienne Keller, Raphaël Fejtö. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 145. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Patricia Kaas (born December 5, 1966 in Forbach, Moselle) is a French singer and actress. Kaas is one of the most successful French-speaking singers in the world. Stylistically her music is not classical chanson, but is closer to a mixture of pop music, jazz and chanson. Since the appearance of her debut album Mademoiselle chante... in 1988 Kaas has sold over 16 million records worldwide. She had her greatest success in, e. g., Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Finland, and Korea with her third album Je te dis vous. Kaas is almost constantly on tour internationally. In 2002 Kaas had her film debut in And now... Ladies and Gentlemen beside Jeremy Irons. Kaas is currently on "Kabaret" world tour since the end of 2008. Kaas represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia and finished in 8th place. Patricia Kaas was born as the youngest of her family on 5 December 1966 in Forbach, Lorraine, France, near the border of Germany. Her father, Joseph (a miner), was French, and her mother, Irmgard, German. Kaas grew up in Stiring-Wendel, between Forbach and Saarbrücken on the French side o...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2213778 ... Read more

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Chapters: Jacques Derrida, Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Althusser, Hélène Cixous, Enrico Macias, Paul Bénichou, Sadek Hadjeres, Daniel Auteuil, Samira Bellil, Étienne Daho, Ishak Belfodil, Rachid Taha, Paul Belmondo, Alphonse Halimi, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Pierre Rehov, Ali Benarbia, Abdelaziz Ben Tifour, Khaled Kelkal, Benjamin Stora, Jean-Paul Sevilla, Kenza Farah, Alain Mimoun, Jean Pélégri, Nicole Garcia, Tony Gatlif, Julian Martin, Jacques Attali, Alain Chabat, Ysa Ferrer, William Ayache, Larbi Benboudaoud, Robert Merle, Maurice Bénichou, Fellag, Shmuel Trigano, Kad Merad, Henri Stambouli, Noureddine Smaïl, Jean-François Larios, Henri Atlan, Sofia Boutella, Kader Firoud, Ali Boulebda, Robert Cohen, Rachid Arhab, Mario Zatelli, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Guy Mardel, Ali Benouna, Omar Sahnoun, Leïla Sebbar, Philippe Anziani, Kader Arif, Alain Dorval, Fatima Gallaire, Jacob Cohen Bakri, Christian Lopez, Fadhma Aït Mansour, Emmanuel Roblès, Farès Bousdira, Ahmed Mihoubi, Julien Dray, Tarik Benhabiles, Yacine si Salem, Said Brahimi, Sandra Laoura, Georges Lamia, Eddy Marnay, Jean-Luc Azoulay, Samir Abbar, Louis Bertignac, José Aboulker, Freeman, Dida Diafat, Kamel Ouali, Annie Fratellini, Jeanne Benameur, Roger Hanin, Pierre Falcone, Sami Nair, Faris Khenniche. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 292. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jacques Derrida (French pronunciation: ) (15 July 1930 8 October 2004) was a French philosopher born in Algeria, who is known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous work has had a significant impact on literary theory and continental philosophy. Derrida was born on 15 July 1930, in El Biar (Algiers), then French Algeria, into a Sephardic Jewish family that became French in 1870 when the Crémieux Decree granted full French citizensh...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=53255 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Helene Cixous, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 4688 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Chapters: People From Oran, Yves Saint Laurent, Hélène Cixous, Khaled, Laurent Pariente, Étienne Daho, Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani, Rachid Taha, Ali Benarbia, Robert Ménard, François Valéry, Tahar Cherif El Ouazani, Jacob Ben Aaron Sasportas, Salim Iles, Alain Chabat, Slimane Raho, Henri Stambouli, Noureddine Daham, Bouazza Feham, Kader Firoud, Abdelhafid Tasfaout, Guy Mardel, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, Mohammed Chaouki Zine, Lucien Jasseron, Ali Moumen, Abdellah Liegeon, Kouider Boukessassa, Emmanuel Roblès, Franck Amsallem, Julien Dray, Mohamed Salem, Jean Bastien, Kader Ferhaoui, Michel Brusseaux, Moulay Haddou, Zoubir Ouasti, Chaba Fadela, Bouabdellah Daoud, Louis Bertignac, Isaac Ben Chayyim Cansino, Emil Amsalem, Reda Acimi, Salim Boumechra, Saïd Sayah, Henri Hauser, Gaston Thomson, Sofiane Daoud, Tayeb Berramla, Farid Bellabes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 149. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, known as Yves Saint Laurent (French pronunciation: ; 1 August 1936 1 June 2008), was an Algerian-born French fashion designer who was considered one of the greatest names in French fashion in the 20th century. In 1985, Caroline Rennolds Milbank wrote, "The most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years, Yves Saint Laurent can be credited with both spurring the couture's rise from its sixties ashes and with finally rendering ready-to-wear reputable". He was born in Oran, French Algeria. In 1953, Saint Laurent submitted three sketches to a contest for young fashion designers, organized by the International Wool Secretariat. He won third place and was invited to attend the awards ceremony in Paris, in December of that year. He is also known to be a member of the illumination by the public. While he and his mothe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=145236 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on March 22, 1997. The length of the article is 800 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Helene Cixous.
Author: Pamela A. Genova
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1997
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v71Issue: n2Page: p348(2)

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Chapters: Algerian Writers, Frantz Fanon, Hélène Cixous, Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar, Azouz Begag, Pierre Rabhi, Mouloud Mammeri, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Malek Bennabi, Mohammed Dib, Rachid Boudjedra, Boualem Sansal, Yasmina Khadra, Nabile Farès, Rachid Mimouni, Leïla Sebbar, Zighen Aym, Mohammed Chaouki Zine, Tahar Djaout, Emmanuel Roblès, Literature of Algeria, Faïza Guène, Abdelkader Alloula, the Women of Algiers in Their Apartments, Malika Mokkeddem, Latifa Ben Mansour, Salem Zenia, Mouloud Feraoun, Salima Ghezali, Farida Belghoul, List of Algerian Writers, Mohammed Yacine. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 116. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Frantz Omar Fanon (July 20, 1925 December 6, 1961) was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. His work remains influential in the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory. Fanon is perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have incited and inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades. Frantz Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, which was then a French colony and is now a French département. He was born into a mixed family background: his father was the descendent of African slaves, and his mother was said to be an illegitimate child of mixed race, whose white ancestors came from Strasbourg in Alsace. Fanon's family was socioeconomically middle-class, and they could afford the fees for the Lycée Schoelcher, then the most prestigious high school in Martinique, where the writer Aimé Césaire was one of his teachers. After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, Vichy French naval troops were blockaded on Martinique. Forced to remain on the island, French soldiers became "authent...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=95185 ... Read more

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Chapters: Frantz Fanon, Hélène Cixous, Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar, Azouz Begag, Pierre Rabhi, Mouloud Mammeri, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Malek Bennabi, Mohammed Dib, Rachid Boudjedra, Boualem Sansal, Yasmina Khadra, Nabile Farès, Rachid Mimouni, Leïla Sebbar, Zighen Aym, Mohammed Chaouki Zine, Tahar Djaout, Emmanuel Roblès, Faïza Guène, Abdelkader Alloula, Malika Mokkeddem, Latifa Ben Mansour, Salem Zenia, Mouloud Feraoun, Salima Ghezali, Farida Belghoul, List of Algerian Writers, Mohammed Yacine. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Frantz Omar Fanon (July 20, 1925 December 6, 1961) was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. His work remains influential in the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory. Fanon is perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have incited and inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades. Frantz Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, which was then a French colony and is now a French département. He was born into a mixed family background: his father was the descendent of African slaves, and his mother was said to be an illegitimate child of mixed race, whose white ancestors came from Strasbourg in Alsace. Fanon's family was socioeconomically middle-class, and they could afford the fees for the Lycée Schoelcher, then the most prestigious high school in Martinique, where the writer Aimé Césaire was one of his teachers. After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, Vichy French naval troops were blockaded on Martinique. Forced to remain on the island, French soldiers became "authentic racists." Many accusations of harassment and sexual misconduct arose. The abuse ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=95185 ... Read more