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4.4 AVERAGE
4.4 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
slow-paced
challenging
dark
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
dark
informative
inspiring
reflective
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Police brutality, Gaslighting, Colonisation
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Rape, War
The type of book that you need to listen to as an audiobook then grab a personal copy to reread it in the physical form. And mark up with margin notes and delve further into it with friends through discussion over a pint. 🍺
There is so much information and he truly grasped so many concepts and laced the shoe so to speak. He wove the multitudes of colonialism into coherent thoughts, and then included case studies near the end of (for lack of a better term) participants in the French colonist culture and how they were influenced/overcoming it (or not)..
some day I will grab a physical copy because mind blown.
There is so much information and he truly grasped so many concepts and laced the shoe so to speak. He wove the multitudes of colonialism into coherent thoughts, and then included case studies near the end of (for lack of a better term) participants in the French colonist culture and how they were influenced/overcoming it (or not)..
some day I will grab a physical copy because mind blown.
Library hold expired but also this one was just hard for me, Frantz Fanon has a very academic style of writing. Eventually I'll try this again and not on audiobook. Probably with highlighter and pen to help my understanding and interest.
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
This was THE most challenging book I’ve read. The sentences were so long and I would have no idea where he was going until I had finished the paragraph. Then I would have to start again. But once I got familiar with Fanon’s writing, I felt like there was a rhythm that suddenly I understood. His writing flowed smoothly as if I was listening to someone speak the words. Fanon is so smart and connected concepts (that I thought I understood until reading this book) so well and so poetically. Finishing this book was a huge accomplishment. But now I want even more Fanon.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Racism, Colonisation
Moderate: Genocide, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Grief, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, Injury/Injury detail
library loan expired; will be looking into purchasing a copy of my own
While there are elements of the book rooted in a conflict that has since evolved, it is poignant and can at times feel eerily contemporary. It has a way of looking directly at the thing that is colonialism in a way that feels quite blunt, and in that way refreshing. It’s also a mixture of prose that moves from social analysis to poetry to psychiatric review in a way that feels cohesive and clear minded. His observations about so-called “negritude” and the chapters on culture in particular left me with lots to think about. In its way, it is a clear eyed call to action, it is international, it is African, it is at times rather dense, and by the end I was glad I read it. Can’t ask for more than that!
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced