FRANTZ FANON, gender, torture and the biopolitics of colonialism

240pp., illus., paperback, Pluto Press, London, & Las Vegas, 2025

ISBN:  9780745341545

Leading Fanon scholar Azzedine Haddour explores themes of gender, revolutionary struggle and decolonisation in the first comprehensive study of Frantz Fanon’s lesser-known work, Studies in a Dying Colonialism (1959).

"A meticulously researched analysis looking beyond Fanon’s most frequently read works on Algerian society under French colonialism and during the War of Independence. Azzedine Haddour explores Fanon’s analyses of gender, the family, medicine, and the use of torture, complementing Fanon’s own writing with a wealth of historical information illuminating the devastating impact of French colonial policy on the Algerian people." Jane Hiddleston, author of Frantz Fanon: Literature and invention

"Few works have more creatively and comprehensively explored Fanon’s perspective on gender relations, the family, and women’s resistance to sexual violence.  It provides an outstanding examination of the historical and political circumstances that shaped his least discussed book, Studies in a Dying Colonialism" Peter Hudis, author of Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the barricades

Azzedine Haddour is Professor in Francophone and Comparative Literature at University College London. He is the author of Frantz Fanon, Postcolonialism and the Ethics of Difference and Colonial Myths: History and narrative, editor of The Fanon Reader, and translator of a collection of Sartre’s essays, Colonialism and Neocolonialism.