Frantz Fanon: the racialised body and beyond

In this lecture, Professor Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading) will focus on Frantz Fanon’s influence and practice as a psychiatrist, his understanding of racism and antisemitism, and his anti-colonialism. Fanon refused to separate his revolutionary politics from his psychiatric practice, nor did he distinguish the various victims of fascism and colonialism. But there is always a tension between his embodied experience of racism and his more abstract understanding of contemporary antisemitism which Professor Cheyette will explore.

Professor Bryan Cheyette has published twelve books, most recently: Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History (Yale University Press, 2014), and The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2020). A Series Editor for Bloomsbury (New Horizons in Contemporary Writing), he is currently completing a concise history of Testimony.

Admission is free, but booking is essential.