Frantz Fanon

“This book compels readers to step into ‘the glare of history’s floodlights.’ Nigel Gibson expertly explores Fanon’s philosophy of liberation and makes a riveting plea for us to listen to Fanon across the ages. Each generation can and should find its revolution ‘no longer in future heaven,’ but within their own collective consciousness.” Jane Anna Gordon, author of Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement “Gibson excavates Fanon like no other scholar. This book is a truly great read, and a masterful rendering of how and why Fanon keeps coming to life during revolutionary turning points in ever more diverse and comprehensive ways.” Lou Turner, co-author of Frantz Fanon, Soweto and Black American Thought “Combat Breathing reads Fanon as Fanon read his patients and comrades—that is, by patiently and brilliantly reframing and researching Fanon’s life and work, becoming curious about moments of hesitation and stasis, and seeing what kind of self- and world-making such moments might vivify, if allowed to unfold … With Fanon, Gibson proposes to cut against the pathologization of resistance, offering tools and theory—a ‘Handbook’—by which current movements might critique, transform, and sustain their forms of resistance.” Parapraxis Magazine