Fanon: life in a revolution -- Influences and engagements -- Colonialism, race and the native psyche. Race, colonialism and identity -- The black man's inferiority complex and race -- The dependency complex -- "Mental disorders" and colonial psychiatry -- Colonialism, gender, sexuality. Colonialism and its sexual economy -- Colonialism and sexual violence -- Women, the anti-colonial struggle and the veil -- On violence I: the destruction of selfhood. Colonial violence -- Territory, geography and the violence of space -- Embodied violence and the alienation of the self -- Hegemony, violence and cultural trauma -- On violence II: the reconstruction of selfhood. Anti-colonial struggles and instrumental violence -- Absolute violence, self-realization and humanism -- Decolonization. Black consciousness, negritude and national cultures -- Negritude -- National culture -- Intellectuals, poets and the peasantry -- The intellectual and the masses -- The peasantry, the masses and political organization -- Nationalism and its pitfalls. In the name of the nation -- Fanon's critique of negritude -- A new humanism? The "problem" of humanism -- The liberated postcolonial -- The ethics of recognition -- Collective ethics -- Beyond national consciousness, towards universalism -- After Fanon.
