Fanon Fridays
- Award winning author, filmmaker, revolutionary, and critical theorist Dr. Frank B. Wilderson III
This week on Fanon Fridays, we take a look at an interview from writer, filmmaker, and revolutionary Dr. Frank B. Wilderson III; given on the life work of Frantz Fanon to Dr. Pamela Brewer on 11/13/2009. Frank B. (as I affectionately refer to him as), is the author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid and Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. Having read both of the books, I can say that they were/are responsible for me having a better understanding of Fanon’s work, and becoming a disciple of Afro-Pessimism. As Frank B. told his students, “Question: Why was the worker shot? Answer: Because s/he went on strike. Question: Why was the black shot? Answer: Because s/he was there.” Click here to download the interview. Enjoy!
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Wow, I just found these Fanon Friday posts, I wasn’t familiar with your website when they were made. People could really benefit from some more! If you want suggestions for excerpts I would be more than happy to! I’ve only read “Wretched,” and I no longer have my notes, but this would encourage me to maybe read the newer translation and/or some of his other work.
Thanks AJ, glad you liked them. Feel free to send suggestions. Fanon is defiantly the truth. He covered damn near all bases in terms of a liberation struggle and how to establish the newly liberated nation, and much more (i.e. the psychology of the colonized). It’s a damn shame to admit, but at this very juncture in time ALL colonized people around the world (the masses of us believe we are free, “We got a black president!” To which I always we respond “WE?” LOL) need to be reading/re-reading Fanon, and making his poignant analysis materialize. NEO-COLONIALISM AIN’T NO PUNK! Thanks again AJ, take care.
Fanon in English at least can be dry, but what’s good is really good and it’s hard to believe how relevant his work is to this day. I’ve found in the past that when I got to a part of “Wretched” that I found noteworthy, I would pretty much take two pages of notes straight! I just sent in an excerpt and online source, I didn’t editorialize ’cause I think the quote is concise and if people are interested, maybe it can kick off something. I was pretty excited to see you all had a review of the “Meditations” book, I had bought it without previous knowledge of the author ’cause I wanted to read someone else’s perspective on Fanon, it had been a while for me at that point.
I just sent another ’cause I’m in the mode I guess, but I’ll try to limit myself for the time being. Again it’s just a straight excerpt with an online source. I’m about to relocate soon and hope to pick up some Fanon to read or re-read cover to cover on paper, so then I can hopefully get a little more in depth if there’s the interest. I hope you all decide to use at least one of my suggestions, but either way, thanks for reminding me about Fanon’s critical work!