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...article with an appeal. Those concerned with freedom of expression, with "the right of people to control their culture and education, about the dignity of human beings, should start here with the issue of censorship. This should be the first commitment of intellectuals and writers." Prof. Irene L. Gendzier Boston University
...Fanon's life and works there is stuff in plenty for biographers. It is all too tempting to see more in Irene Gendzier's attempt than she actually achieves. Gendzier, an associate professor of history at Boston University, set out first, she says, "to write a psychohistory" that would relate the development of Fanon's "inner forces" to his public life. But she abandoned that aim, in part because the evidence proved hard to get. Fanon's widow, for example, refused to be interviewed. Gendzier then turned to what she subtitles "a critical study." It bears...
Thereafter, as Fanon grew more prominent, he grew more controversial and more lost in the Algerian and Third World factional disputes that still swirl around his memory. Author Gendzier succumbs to what amounts to a left-wing psychic disorder in its own right: the compulsion to pursue and defend Fanon's reputation through increasingly irrelevant intricacies. She does this in a prose crippled by repetition and neo-Marxist jargon. Fanon himself quickly escapes her-and the reader is glad to follow him. · Horace Judson
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