Fanon Frantz - Frantz Fanon : critical perspectives

Anthony C.Alessandrini is a PhD candidate in Literatures in English and Womens Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He has published articles on postcolonial literature and feminist and Marxist theory. He is currently completing a dissertation entitled Bombay in Iselin: Culture, Capital, and Citizens between South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora.

Michael Azar is currently completing a work on the intellectual debate on the Algerian War, In the Name of the Spirit, Representations of a War: Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Frantz Fanon, and has also written the introduction to the Swedish translation of Fanons Peau noir, masques blancs (Svart Hud, Vita Masker). He teaches philosophy and the history of ideas at the Department of the History of Ideas and Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Rey Chow is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Woman and Chinese Modernity, Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies, and Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (winner of the 1995 James Russell Lowell Prize). Her latest book is Ethics After Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Reading.

T.Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Associate Professor of French and African-American Studies at Purdue University, Indiana. She is the author of Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French and Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms, and co-editor of Fanon: A Critical Reader and Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions.

Terry Goldie is Professor of English at York University. He is the author of Fear and Temptation: The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures, and has co-edited An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English and Canada: Theoretical Discourse. He is completing a book entitled Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction.

John Mowitt is Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Text: The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object and the forthcoming Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking. He has published widely on film theory and cultural studies and politics, including the influential essay Algerian Nation: Fanons Fetish.

Nigel Gibson is assistant director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University, New York, where he also teaches. He is the author of the forthcoming study Frantz Fanon, and editor of Fanon and Fanonism.

E.San Juan, Jr. is Professor of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He is the author of many books, including Racial Formations/ Critical Transformations, Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression, Rizal: In Our Time, and From Exile to Diaspora: Versions of the Filipino Experience in the United States. His most recent book is Beyond Postcolonial Theory.

E.Ann Kaplan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Humanities Institute at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author of Women and Film, Rocking Around the Clock, Motherhood and Representation, and Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze. A revised and expanded version of her 1978 book Women in Film Noir was published in 1998. She is currently editing a volume on feminism and film for Oxford University Press.

Neil Lazarus is Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Rhode Island. He is the author of Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction and of a number of influential articles on postcolonial theory and literature, cultural studies, and modernity and postmodernity. His most recent book is Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World.

Kobena Mercer has taught in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and is currently Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at New York University. He has written and lectured widely on the cultural politics of race, identity, and representation, and is the author of Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled The Black Body in Visual Culture.

Gwen Bergner is Assistant Professor of English at West Virginia University. She is the author of several articles on race, representation, and psychoanalysis, including Who Is That Masked Woman? Or, The Role of Gender in Fanons Black Skin, White Masks (in PMLA) and Myths of the Masculine Subject: The Oedipus Complex and Douglasss 1845 Narrative (in The Psychoanalysis of Race).

Samira Kawash is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she teaches twentieth century literary and cultural studies and theory. She is the author of