File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1999/postcolonial.9912, message 143


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.)
>
>
>
>
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