Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970
- African American Literature In Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- I Poetry and Music
- II Culture and Politics
- Chapter 5 The Rights of Black Love
- Chapter 6 Albert Murray Beyond Plight and Blight
- Chapter 7 Espionage and Paths of Black Radicalism
- Chapter 8 The Necessary Violence of Frantz Fanon and Malcolm X in Global Black Revolution
- III Beyond the Canon
- Index
- References
Chapter 8 - The Necessary Violence of Frantz Fanon and Malcolm X in Global Black Revolution
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Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970
- African American Literature In Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- I Poetry and Music
- II Culture and Politics
- Chapter 5 The Rights of Black Love
- Chapter 6 Albert Murray Beyond Plight and Blight
- Chapter 7 Espionage and Paths of Black Radicalism
- Chapter 8 The Necessary Violence of Frantz Fanon and Malcolm X in Global Black Revolution
- III Beyond the Canon
- Index
- References
Summary
Engaging with the rich complexities of revolution, this chapter troubles the accepted narrative of Black resistance in 1960s America, specifically the uses of violence, and the ways it stretches the movement across space and time. It considers the violence of Black protest in the 1960s in more expansive terms, going beyond the turn-the-other-cheek violence of what often is described as nonviolent protest. Engaging with Malcolm X’s Autobiography (1965) and selected speeches, read through the influence of Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961), this essay reads the two as representative of a global Black model of revolution predicated on outwardly directed violence. This chapter’s counter-narrative challenges the geography, temporality, and structure of Black revolution in the 1960s, decentering the U.S., acknowledging the influence of French intellectualism, and reaching back to acts of resistance of earlier generations, ultimately complicating the linear narrative of nation-bound, peaceful protest that has come to define Civil Rights.
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- African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970Black Art, Politics, and Aesthetics, pp. 199 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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