From: "Iris Lavell" <ilavell-AT-central.murdoch.edu.au> Subject: Re: Interview w/ Fanon caregiver Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:03:23 +0800 I'd like to know if he talked about his time at Blida-Joinville Hospital and how this influenced his decision to support the Algerian struggle for independence. -----Original Message----- From: Aletha Stahl <stahlal-AT-earlham.edu> To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Date: Monday, 20 December 1999 11:55 Subject: Interview w/ Fanon caregiver >I recently learned of a personal connection to one of the caregivers >working with Frantz Fanon at the end of his life, and this person has >agreed to an interview. While I teach Fanon and have focused my research on >the French Caribbean, I do not consider myself to be a Fanon specialist and >certainly not a biographer. Concerning the interview, I do not share the >proprietary sense of the person who helped me make the contact but at his >urging am willing to be the person to follow through. > >I solicit your help on two scores. > >First, what are some of questions about Fanon that you might like to see >addressed by someone who spent the last weeks of his life with him, met his >family, etc.? I certainly intend to learn more about the CIA briefing this >caregiver received. I am also interested in the ways in which the two of >them developed the friendship I know existed and what some of Fanon's >concerns were as he neared the end of his life. > >Second, do you have recommendations of a journal where I might publish the >interview? I am happy to share the information as widely as possible and >am therefore open to a Web journal. > >You are welcome to contact me off-list with your ideas, and I will gladly >cite you as a contributor in anything I publish. > >-Aletha Stahl > >Languages and Literatures >Earlham College >W. National Road >Richmond, IN 47374 >tel/fax: 765.983.1452 > >Sa ou pas sav gran pas'w. -- Martinique >(What you don't know is greater than you.) > > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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