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Frantz Fanon - Une vie en révolutions
Adam Shatz
- La découverte
- Poches Sciences
- 7 Mai 2025
- 9782348088186
La vie de Frantz Fanon se lit comme un thriller de la décolonisation et de la guerre froide. Elle est aussi un témoignage essentiel des bouleversements politiques et intellectuels du XXe siècle.
Après avoir combattu dans les rangs de la France libre pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Fanon, jeune psychiatre martiniquais charismatique et talentueux, publie à 27 ans
Peau noire, masques blancs, ouvrage prophétique qui s'imposera avec le temps comme un classique. Il approfondit son expérience clinique au centre hospitalier de Saint-Alban (Lozère), berceau d'innovations thérapeutiques qui marqueront profondément sa recherche d'une psychiatrie désaliénée au service des humiliés.
Cette quête de la désaliénation, il la met à l'épreuve de la situation coloniale lorsqu'il est muté en Algérie, à la veille de la guerre de libération. Il s'engage corps et âme dans le combat anticolonial, d'abord à Tunis où il met ses compétences médicales au service du Front de libération nationale (FLN), puis comme ambassadeur itinérant du mouvement en Afrique subsaharienne.
Fauché par une leucémie foudroyante au moment même où paraît son livre le plus célèbre,
Les Damnés de la terre, Fanon meurt le 6 décembre 1961, laissant derrière lui une oeuvre qui suscite depuis soixante ans une multitude d'interprétations et d'appropriations créatrices dans le monde entier.
Servie par la plume élégante d'Adam Shatz, cette biographie politique et intellectuelle s'impose comme un ouvrage de référence. -
The rebel's clinic : The revolutionary lives of Frantz Fanon
Adam Shatz
- Head Of Zeus
- 18 Janvier 2024
- 9781035900046
Since his death in 1961 at the age of thirty-six, Frantz Fanon has loomed ever larger. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power have inspired radical movements across the world. But who was Frantz Fanon? In this searching biography, Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanon's stunning journey-from a civil servant's modest home in Martinique to fighting in the French Army during World War II, practicing psychiatry in rural France and Algeria, and joining the Algerian independence struggle, where he became a spokesman, diplomat, and clandestine strategist before his death at a military hospital in Maryland. Shatz situates Fanon's writings in the context of his close and contested relations with the French intellectuals of his era, as well as his encounters with psychiatric patients, guerrilla fighters, and the early leaders of independent African states. Today, Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth have become canonical texts of the Black and global radical imagination, comparable to James Baldwin's essays in their influence. And yet they are little understood. In The Rebel's Clinic, Shatz offers a dramatic reconstruction of Fanon's extraordinary life-and a guide to the books that underlie Black Lives Matter and other groups attempting to challenge white supremacy and racial capitalism.
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WRITERS AND MISSIONARIES ; ESSAYS ON THE RADICAL IMAGINATION
Adam Shatz
- Verso
- 9 Mai 2023
- 9781804290590
Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and thrust of politics? And, in an age of horror and crisis, what does it mean to be a committed writer?
Shatz interrogates the major figures of twentieth and twenty-first century thought and finds within their lives and work the roots of our present intellectual and geopolitical situation. Charting the role of the committed intellectual through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre on the Algerian War and Edward Said's lifelong solidarity with the Palestinian people, to Fouad Ajami's role as the "native informant" for pro-intervention cause in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, alongside philosophers and critics Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Claude Levi-Strauss and the novelists Michel Houllebecq and Richard Wright, each struggled to reconcile their writing and their politics, their thought and their commitments. Writers and Missionaries is an erudite and incisive work of intellectual elucidation and biographical enquiry that demands that we interrogate anew the relation of thought and action in the struggle for a more just world.
