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Concerning Violence
Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987 | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Göran Olsson, Sophie Vukovic
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A beautiful photographic exploration of the revolutionary movements in Africa in the sixties and seventies. An unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than one hundred and fifty arresting color and black-and-white photographs from G?ran Hugo Olsson’s award-winning documentary, with passages from Frantz Fanon’s classic The Wretched of the Earth. Concerning Violence is a powerful commentary on the history of colonialism and struggles for self-determination, whose echoes remain with us today, and will introduce a new generation to Fanon, whom Angela Y. Davis has called "this century’s most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism."
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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987 | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Göran Olsson, Sophie Vukovic
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This book uses the writings of political philosopher Frantz Fanon alongside still photos of documentary footage and some interviews to look at violence in African countries shaking off the yoke of colonialism. Great idea, but I feel like this wasn‘t executed well. Adding detailed captions to the photos would have made this so much better.

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Librarybelle That‘s a shame! 2y
Caterina Bummer! I loved the documentary, which I watched after finishing The Wretched of the Earth. I didn't know this book existed! Do you think it'd still be worth it for me to get my hands on? 2y
Hooked_on_books @Caterina I do suspect it will be a lot more meaningful for those who have seen the film, which I think would give it context. If you‘d like, I could send it along to you. (edited) 2y
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