A timely and original short biography reintroducing Fanon for a new generation of readers. Written with clarity and passion, Christopher J. Lee’s account argues for the pragmatic idealism of Frantz Fanon and his continued importance today.
Christopher J. Lee is the author of Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism, and Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa and the editor of Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives. He is an associate professor of history at Lafayette College.
“Lee’s marvelous and careful biographical study is now the go-to
book for those seeking to understand Frantz Fanon in his historical
and intellectual context. It is, simply put, synthesis and analysis
at their best.”
*James D. Le Sueur, author of Uncivil War: Intellectuals and
Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria*
“This book provides the reader with an invaluable guide to Fanon’s
life and an accessible gateway to those interested in further
exploring the intellectual worlds in which he developed his
thinking..”
*Africa at LSE*
“Christopher Lee has written a delightfully compelling introduction
to Frantz Fanon. Well-researched and thoroughly grounded, Lee’s
study admirably situates Fanon in the broadest historical context,
while subtly explaining Fanon’s powerful legacy today. This book
taught me many things, revealing in intriguing ways the works of a
black thinker from Martinique who so passionately embraced the
Algerian Revolution, and so ardently desired to be embraced by
it.”
*Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University*
“In Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism, Christopher J.
Lee takes on the task of introducing a complex thinker in a short
tract…. [He] provides a whirlwind tour of Fanon’s life, ideas and
context…. Lee’s reading of Fanon provides a much needed nuance that
is often missing when dealing with Fanon.”
*Marx and Philosophy*
“This smart and much-needed study persuasively resituates the life
and thought of Fanon for a twenty-first-century audience.”
*Todd Shepard, author of The Invention of Decolonization: The
Algerian War and the Remaking of France*
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