Resistance and Revolution: Fanon, Himes, and "a literature of combat"

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Title
Resistance and Revolution: Fanon, Himes, and "a literature of combat"
Journal
African American Review
Author(s)
Matthew Scully
ISSN
1062-4783 (print)
1945-6182 (electronic)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
54
Number
3
Pages
199-217
Language
english
Abstract
This essay brings together the work of Chester Himes and Frantz Fanon to show how they aim not only to analyze but also to construct the conditions for a revolution that annihilates the anti-Black foundations of Western society. Drawing on Fanon's brief reference to "a literature of combat" that contributes to decolonizing violence, I argue that the late novels of Himes's Harlem cycle, Blind Man with a Pistol and Plan B, can be reread as works of combat literature. This literature elaborates an aesthetic of revolution and a revolutionary aesthetic oriented toward the construction of a Fanonian "new man."
Keywords
Violence, Racism, Colonialism, Consciousness, Oppression, Decolonization, Literary criticism, Politics, Novels, Humanism, Censorship, Revolutions, Resistance, Aesthetics, Decolonization, Western society
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