https://peertube.mountain-adventure-spirit.xyz/videos/watch/24eb82b2-9b12-49ae-a3d2-53bfebcb68e7 00:00 intro 00:44 "Parallel Hands" - Fanon's First Major Piece 01:36 Black Skin, White Masks 06:20 BSWM Chapter 5: Disillusionment with Negritude and Aime Cesaire 10:56 on translation and Fanon's translators Constance Farrington and Richard Philcox 13:31 The Wretched of the Earth 19:12 from Towards the African Revolution to A Dying Colonialism 22:52 conclusion Throughout his work, Frantz Fanon was consistent on two things: The necessity of violence for decolonization/revolutionary struggle., The powerlessness of identity-based politics., In this video I focus on #2, surveying the majority of Fanon's works, from his recently recovered early play "Parallel Hands" (1949) through the famous Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and Wretched of the Earth (1963) as well as his shorter works collected in Towards the African Revolution and A Dying Colonialism, to argue that Fanon articulated a thorough critique of contemporary identity politics before it had even emerged. Along the way, I discuss some of the problems in the various translations and interpretations of Fanon. In the backdrop you'll find some of what Fanon might call "cleansing" or "detoxifying" scenes to set the stakes and uh - exfoliate. I'm grateful to @Cine Ma for compiling most of the archival footage: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcPKvGpsoKz8sgMaE2yuE3g Sources: Césaire, Aimé. Notebook of a Return to My Native Land: Cahier d’un Retour Au Pays Natal. Edited by Annie Pritchard. Translated by Mireille Rosello. Bloodaxe Books, 2020. Fanon, Frantz. A Dying Colonialism. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. Nachdr. New York, NY: Grove Press, 2007. ———. Alienation and Freedom. Edited by Jean Khalfa and Robert J. C. Young. Translated by Steven Corcoran. London Oxford New York New Delhi Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. ———. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Richard Philcox. 1st ed., new Ed. New York : [Berkeley, Calif.]: Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2008. ———. Les damnés de la terre. La Découverte / Poche, 2016. ———. Peau noire, masques blancs. Points. Paris: Éd. du Seuil, 1975. ———. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Constance Farrington. New York: Grove Press, 1963. ———. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox. New York: Grove, 2004. ———. Toward the African Revolution: Political Essays. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. New Evergreen ed. New York: Grove Press, 1988. Sayles, James Yaki. Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings. Chicago, Ill.: Spear and Shield, 2010. “The Struggle to Decolonise the Mind: Frantz Fanon and His Irish Translator, Constance Farrington | MR Online,” February 4, 2022. https://mronline.org/2022/02/04/the-struggle-to-decolonise-the-mind/. Wynter, Sylvia. “Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, The Puzzle of Conscious Experience, of "Identity” and What It’s Like to Be ‘Black.’” In National Identities and Sociopolitical Changes in Latin America, edited by Mercedes Duran-Cogan and Antonio Gomez-Moriana. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:27:48 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.mountain-adventure-spirit.xyz https://peertube.mountain-adventure-spirit.xyz/lazy-static/avatars/ef51e553-df20-4280-a022-2b8adc4c57e3.jpg https://peertube.mountain-adventure-spirit.xyz/videos/watch/24eb82b2-9b12-49ae-a3d2-53bfebcb68e7 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.mountain-adventure-spirit.xyz/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.