Jean Khalfa

University of Cambridge, French, Faculty Member

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The Political Writings from Alienation and Freedom

Frantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical... more Frantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays, articles and notes published in this volume cover the most politically active period of his life and encapsulate the breadth, depth and urgency of his writings. In particular, they clarify and amplify his much-debated views on violent resistance.

These works provide new complexity to our understanding of Fanon and reveal just how relevant his thinking is to the contemporary world and how important his ideas are to changing it.

The Plays from Alienation and Freedom

Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dial... more Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for theatre developed during the years that he was studying medicine, and in 1949 he wrote the plays The Drowning Eye (L'Œil se noie), and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles). This first English translation of the works gives us a Fanon at his most lyrical, experimental and provocative.

The Psychiatric Writings from Alienation and Freedom

Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and a... more Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from 1951 to 1960 in tandem with his political work and reveals much about how Fanon's thought developed, showing that, for him, psychiatry was part of a much wider socio-political struggle. His political, revolutionary and literary lives should not then be separated from the psychiatric practice and writings that shaped his thinking about oppression, alienation and the search for freedom.

Alienation and Freedom, Frantz Fanon

by Jean Khalfa and Robert J C Young

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/alienation-and-freedom-9781474250245/ Since the publication of T... more https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/alienation-and-freedom-9781474250245/

Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for successive generations of intellectuals-for anti-colonial and civil rights activists in the 60s and 70s, for those working in postcolonial studies from the 80s to the present day, and currently for specialists of French and North African history, of colonial psychiatry, and ethnopsychiatry, and for all those who work with conflicts of identity in postcolonial societies.

Frantz Fanon is regarded as a foundational thinker of Postcolonial Studies, bringing together the analysis of colonialism from an objective, historical perspective and an interrogation of its subjective effects on colonizer and colonized alike. This book furthers his powerful intervention into how we think about identity, race and activism and provides a unique insight into Fanon's literary works and psychiatric, philosophical and historical theories.

Alienation and Freedom offers a remarkable opportunity to discover a range of unknown literary, psychiatric, and political works by Fanon, many of which were never published before, and throws new light on the thinking of a major 20th-century philosopher whose disruptive and moving work continues to shape how we look at the world.

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Poetics of the Antilles. Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant

Poetics of the Antilles • M o d e r n F r e n c h I d e n t i t i e s The essays collected in thi... more Poetics of the Antilles • M o d e r n F r e n c h I d e n t i t i e s The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than the origin of a process which was inseparably poetic and political. It entailed an aesthetics of dispersion or errance, rather than belonging. This volume thus questions the traditional teleological narrative of negritude as 'renaissance' or 'awakening'. A careful look at the birth of different negritude movements shows the complexity of this history and explains Fanon's philosophical and political critique of the notion. These writers' astonishingly rich production rests on original aesthetic ideas and philosophical reflections which the vagaries of history and displacement, and their comparison with major metropolitan literary movements, had masked.

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Frantz Fanon: Écrits sur l'aliénation et la liberté

This 680 pages volume contains Fanon's unpublished or never re-published work, co-edited with Rob... more This 680 pages volume contains Fanon's unpublished or never re-published work, co-edited with Robert Young: 2 plays written by Fanon, all his psychiatric work, a number of political articles, some correspondance, an annotated catalogue of his library and hundred pages of introductions and notes. The original French edition is published by La Découverte. The English translation will be published by Bloomsbury in 2016 or early 2017.

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Hands Free / Les Mains Libres. From Dada to Lettrism and Body Art.

From Dada to Lettrism and Body Art, Jean Petithory avant-garde publisher and bookseller

L'Intime

livre d'artiste/artist's book

Introduction, Maccheroni Books/Works

The dialogue between painting and poetry: livres d'artistes, 1874-1999

Introduction to the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

... Kevin Nolan; Emma Wagstaff; Katherine Savage for her careful re-reading, and Tristan Palmer, ... more

The new French poetry

Afrique du Sud Le Cap de Bonne Espérance

Special issue of Les Temps Modernes on the democratic transition in South Africa co-edited with C... more

Papers by Jean Khalfa

« Dialogues du livre et de la performance dans la poésie élémentaire de Julien Blaine »

by Gaëlle Théval and Jean Khalfa

(avec Isabelle Maunet) I. Chol et J. Khalfa (dir.) Les Espaces du livre / Spaces of the book, C... more (avec Isabelle Maunet)
I. Chol et J. Khalfa (dir.) Les Espaces du livre / Spaces of the book, Cambridge : Peter Lang, 2015, p.227-242
[La poésie de Julien Blaine se déploie d’abord dans le hic et nunc de la performance. Pourtant la question du livre pris dans sa matérialité tient une place centrale dans sa poétique. Le livre ne se pense pas, chez le poète, comme un aboutissement, mais bien en dialogue avec le geste performatif, comme une étape parmi d’autres au sein d’un processus qui le dépasse, medium parmi d’autres possibles d’une œuvre marquée par la circulation intermédiatique. Ce sont ces circulations qui sont ici envisagées, de manière à montrer comment elles contribuent à la fois à relativiser et à exhiber les propriétés spécifiques au medium livre, mais aussi à repenser la place du poète dans la production concrète de son œuvre imprimé.]

Spaces of the Book : Materials and Agents of the Text/Image Creation (XXth and XXIst Centuries) = Les Espaces Du Livre : Supports et Acteurs de La Création Texte/Image (XXe-XXIe s)

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Nov 1, 2015

Claude Lanzmann in conversation

Wasafiri, Mar 1, 2005

Fanon he was a member of the editorial board of that journal, created by Simone de Beauvoir, Maur... more

Fanon, psychiatre révolutionnaire

La Découverte eBooks, May 3, 2018

The Collected Poems of Edouard Glissant

Review: Literature And Arts Of The Americas, May 1, 2007

Quarrel of the universal. Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle

Comme le titre de ce dialogue l'indique, il s'agit bien géographiquement de discuter d&#3... more Comme le titre de ce dialogue l'indique, il s'agit bien géographiquement de discuter d'Afrique(s) c'est à dire de ce pluriel hypothétique sur lequel les auteurs ne tombent jamais d'accord : l'Afrique est-elle une mosaïque géo-sociologique qui n'a fait unité que sous le regard des colonisateurs (position de Jean-Loup Amselle anthropologue africaniste), ou bien, et malgré cette histoire désastreuse, n'est-ce pas une entité culturelle à unifier politiquement car elle repose malgré tout sur une identité et sur des contenus au moins désirés, idées régulatrices, bref parce qu'elle est projet, et projet important (position de Souleymane Bachir Diagne, philosophe de la logique formelle ainsi qu'historien de la philosophie dans et en rapport à l'Islam) ? La première position reflète philosophiquement un immanentisme et un pragmatisme qui ont pour corrélat (ou visée) politique le refus du pli ou repli identitaire contemporain et de la fragmentation sociale qui en résulte. Les identités sociales, culturelles ou linguistiques, ne sont jamais que construites, qu'on les impose ou que l'on s'en pare, alors que la division socio-économique et l'opposition de classe elle, est un donné et un donné universel que la fragmentation identitaire ne sert aujourd'hui qu'à masquer. La seconde position, celle de Diagne, n'est pas exactement l'inverse de la première, mais s'en démarque clairement et c'est dans ce porte-à-faux que réside l'intérêt du livre. Il reconnaît en effet volontiers tout ce que l'idée d'une identité africaine doit à l'anthropologie coloniale. Mais il tient que l'origine et les circonstances de ce savoir-là n'impliquent pas qu'aucune identité culturelle africaine n'ait pu se développer avant, pendant, pour ou contre le regard anthropologique, ni non plus qu'une telle identité et son corrélat panafricaniste ne puisse faire l'objet d'un désir constructif et jouer ainsi un rôle important dans le cadre d'un véritable projet d'émancipation dans les situations postcoloniales.

Intensity, or: the ‘Encounter’

Continuum eBooks, Sep 12, 2014

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