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Publication Date: 02/07/2008
Wideman’s first novel in a decade conjures the author of The Wretched of the Earth and his urgent relevance today. Wideman’s fascinating new novel weaves together fiction, biography, and memoir to evoke the life and message of Frantz Fanon, the influential author of The Wretched of the Earth. Wideman’s novel is disguised as the project of a contemporary African-American novelist, Thomas, who undertakes writing a life of Fanon. The result is an electrifying mix of perspectives, traveling from Manhattan to Paris to Algeria to Pittsburgh. Part whodunit, part screenplay, and part love story, Fanon introduces the French film director Jean-Luc Godard to ailing Mrs. Wideman in Homewood, and chases the meaning of Fanon’s legacy through our violent, post–9/11 world, which seems determined to perpetuate the evils Fanon sought to rectify.
[a bigger story, fanon in fiction/ film?]
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