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" Concerning Violence [is] a post colonialist montage . . . [an] illustration of Fanon's 1961 anticolonialist broadside, The Wretched of the Earth , abridged and sharpened to its ferocious point." The New York Times "By grounding colonial brutalities and the responses to those injustices in the visual, the phenomenon of colonialism attains a larger and more global significance. Olsson's interest is in decolonizationthat short yet potent moment at the tail end of an anti-colonial war followed by the transfer of power when the new nation comes into being. This has often proven to be one of the most violent episodes in post-colonial history, and [Frantz] Fanon is its most articulate philosopher . . . Olsson's investment [is] in making Fanon's theory relevant and up-to-date." The Guardian An unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than a hundred arresting color photographs from Gran Hugo Olsson's award-winning documentary, with passages from Frantz Fanons 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 w

Author

Gran Olsson; Sophie Vukovic; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Publisher

Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781608465323

Subjects

Social Science, History, Humanities