The Worlds of Frantz Fanon's ‘L’Algérie se dévoile
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9835835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald Reid (0000-0002-8149-0405, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 460-475 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1128 • E-ISSN: 1468-2931 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/fs/knm128 |
| OpenAlex | W2067489904 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Frantz Fanon's pioneering essay ‘L’Algérie se dévoile' is enriched by examining the particular situation of a few exceptional Algerian and French women prominent in Algeria during the War of Independence who are not the focus of Fanon's analysis, individuals like the FLN militant Zohra Drif and General Jacques Massu's wife, Suzanne Massu. They were quite unrepresentative of Algerian or French women in Algeria, but crucial figures in representations of activists in each group. Drif, a gifted student from the social elite, had, like Fanon, been exposed in French cultural institutions to a liberation at once proffered and denied. If there is little place for her experience in Fanon's essay, he does show what we can learn about the contemporary French mentalité from assessment of characters inspired by women like Drif in novels about the war. Examination of Suzanne Massu in turn suggests how bourgeois French women empowered in maternalist projects could work to try to impede Algerian women's embrace of national liberation, but not through the putative liberation of women Fanon addresses. The war unveiled a yet more complicated world of imagination and practices than we see in Fanon's essay
Art · Art history · Bourgeoisie · Elite · Independence (probability theory · Militant · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Wife · African history and culture studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Law · North African History and Literature · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |