Freedom and Revolution in the Thought of Frantz Fanon

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Title:	Freedom and Revolution in the Thought of Frantz Fanon
Author:	Hansen, Emmanuel
Year:	1977
Periodical:	Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907)
Volume:	2
Issue:	1
Period:	February
Pages:	17-41
Language:	English
Geographic term:	world
Subjects:	literature French language politics colonialism nationalism Literature, Mass Media and the Press
About person:	Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/24486306
Abstract:	More often than not, it is not realised that revolution in the thought of Fanon only makes sense when it is viewed against Fanon's basic concern - freedom - and not freedom in the abstract but freedom for concrete human beings. Fanon's call for revolution is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve a more basic end of man, viz. freedom. It is important to understand this if one is to understand Fanon's thought and the interrelations between the two. Far too many critical works on Fanon seem to be based on a misunderstanding of his position and it is this limited objective, that of presenting Fanon's basic position, which the present author attempts. Notes, French sum.