Success and failure : Frantz Fanon and Lamine Senghor as (false) prophets of decolonization

Murphy, David (2015) Success and failure : Frantz Fanon and Lamine Senghor as (false) prophets of decolonization. Nottingham French Studies, 54 (1). pp. 92-106. ISSN 0029-4586 (https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2015.0108)

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Abstract

Frantz Fanon has often been hailed as the great prophet of decolonization. At the same time, his most severe critics have accused his work of providing intellectual-political cover for some of the worst excesses of the newly independent regimes. This article builds on David Macey's contextualizing work in order to think in a more general fashion about the processes involved in deeming a given thinker or movement to be either a failure or a success, comparing Fanon's legacy with that of Lamine Senghor, a neglected anti-colonial militant of the interwar period.

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Item type:	Article
ID code:	66674
Dates:	Date Event 31 March 2015 Published 28 February 2015 Published Online
Notes:	This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Nottingham French Studies. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/nfs.2015.0108.
Subjects:	Political Science > Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS)
Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
Date deposited:	22 Jan 2019 11:56
Last modified:	09 Apr 2024 00:30
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URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/66674

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