The critical review essay will address Franz Fanons The Wretched of the Earth. The purpose of the exercise is to summarise, contextualize, and critically analyse key aspects of the text. To do this, it will be necessary to combine two different but complementary approaches. On the one hand, you should think big. What are the main arguments that the book advances? What is the main problem or puzzle that Fanon assesses? On the other hand, you should also think small. It is not sufficient to summarize Fanons argument. Rather, we want you to unpack the argument and provide a critique of it (to be clear, a critique is a detailed analysis and assessment, not necessarily a negative judgment). We are interested in your own ideas, thoughts, and reactions to the text. The best critiques will focus, in detail (with quotations and page numbers), on one or two key aspects of the text e.g., Fanons use of a particular concept; Fanons application of the argument to different cases/scenarios in the text; Fanons choice of methodology, etc. It is much better to cover a small, important part of the book in a precise and scholarly manner than to analyse broad swaths of the text in an imprecise way. Every effort should be made to offer a critique in Fanons work in his own terms; that is, in terms of the questions he is trying to address, rather than other questions you might find more interesting. You should make sure to back up any claim with specific citations from the text. Every major concept used in the critical review essay should be precisely defined. Finally, you should support some of your arguments drawing on the secondary literature (scholarly journal articles and books) on Fanons theoretical work in general, and The Wretched of the Earth in particular. A minimum of four secondary sources should be used, all of which should be cited correctly in the standard fashion (Harvard style).
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