Concerning violence : Fanon, film, and liberation in Africa, selected takes 1965-1987

" Concerning Violence [is] a post colonialist montage . . . [an] illustration of Fanon's 1961 anticolonialist broadside, The Wretched of the Earth , abridged and sharpened to its ferocious point." The New York Times "By grounding colonial brutalities and the responses to those injustices in the visual, the phenomenon of colonialism attains a larger and more global significance. Olsson's interest is in decolonizationthat short yet potent moment at the tail end of an anti-colonial war followed by the transfer of power when the new nation comes into being. This has often proven to be one of the most violent episodes in post-colonial history, and [Frantz] Fanon is its most articulate philosopher . . . Olsson's investment [is] in making Fanon's theory relevant and up-to-date." The Guardian An unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than a hundred arresting color photographs from Gran Hugo Olsson's award-winning documentary, with passages from Frantz Fanons classic The Wretched of the Earth . Concerning Violence is a powerful commentary on the history of colonialism and struggles for self-determination, whose echoes remain with us today, and will introduce a new generation to Fanon, whom Angela Davis has called this centurys most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism. The book features an introduction by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of Can the Subaltern Speak? and other foundational texts of postcolonialism. A beautiful photographic exploration of the revolutionary movements in Africa in the '60s and 70's. Edited By Göran Hugo Olsson And Sophie Vuković. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.