Lexington Books
Pages: 156
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-0-7391-8048-8 • Hardback • July 2014 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-0-7391-8049-5 • eBook • July 2014 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
Joby Fanon, born in Martinique in 1923, studied law in Paris and worked as a customs officer in Paris, Moroni, and Strasbourg. For his support of a short-lived Martinican independence movement in the early 1960s, he was banned from his home island for over a decade. He later retired to Martinique, where he wrote this biography of his younger brother, Frantz. Joby Fanon died in 2004.
1. Preface
2. Our Family
3. Our Youth in Fort-de-France
4. Our Schooling during the War
5. Dissidence
6. The Soldier
7. Frantz and His Family
8. Return to Martinique after the War
9. Studies in France
10. The Death of our Father
11. A Vacation in Nantua
12. The Playwright
13. Black Skin, White Masks
14. The General Practitioner
15. Blida
16. Gabrielle
17. The First Congress of Black Writers
18. The Second Congress
19. Tunis
20. A Telegram
21. Death and Burial
22. Fanon and Martinique
23. Fanon and Humanism
Frantz Fanon, My Brother: Doctor, Playwright, Revolutionary is an engaging and personal volume, which brings Fanon alive as a thinker, a humanist, and a man of action and constant movement. Written forty years after Fanon’s death, the emotion that comes through the book is one of deep love. As Fanon’s closest brother, Joby is an essential interlocutor and has been a source for all of Fanon’s biographers, but here he also wants to set the record straight. As well as a portrait of Joby and Frantz Fanon’s family life in Martinique, the biography includes illuminating and important family letters and summaries of Frantz Fanon’s plays. This is a book that everyone interested in Frantz Fanon should have in their library.
— Nigel C. Gibson, Associate Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College