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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Critical Race Theory as Public Enemy -- Pessimism as the Cornerstone of the Black Radical Tradition -- Chapter Summary -- 1 The Sources of the Afropessimist Paradigm -- The Theoretical Space of Afropessimism -- Critical Race Theory -- Giorgio Agamben's Paradigmatic Ontology -- Flesh and Fungibility in Black Feminism -- 2 Theoretical Origins of Afropessimism -- Blackness beyond the Political -- The Eon of Blackness -- Anthropological Difference and Dehumanization -- The Objective Value of White Fantasies -- 3 From the Black Man as Problem to the Study of Black Men -- On the Necessity of Black Male Studies -- A Genealogy of Continuity of Anti-blackness in White Humanities -- Emergence of Black Male Studies and the Critique of Phallicism -- The Patriarchy Redefined -- 4 A Politics of Antagonisms -- United States: Blackness and Strategy -- Canada: White First Peoples and White Blacks -- France: "Vous, les Indigènes" -- Conclusion -- Postface -- Black Male Studies and the Disaggregation of Violence and Death Affecting Black People -- Rethinking Black Thought -- A Novel Contribution to Black Philosophy and Decolonial Thought -- Notes -- Introduction: Centrality and Erasure of Black Pessimism -- 1 The Sources of the Afropessimist Paradigm -- 2 Theoretical Origins of Afropessimism -- 3 From the Black Man as Problem to the Study of Black Men -- 4 A Politics of Antagonisms -- Conclusion: Black Communism -- Postface: The Conceptual Limitations of Studying Blackness -- Index -- EULA.

Psychoanalysis and Algerian Paradoxes -- Colonial Rupture -- Colonialism Consumed by War -- Colonialism's Devastating Effects on Post-Independence Algeria -- Fratricide: The Dark Side of the Political Order -- The Internal War of the 90s -- State of Terror and State Terror -- Legitimacy, Fratricide and Power -- Getting Out of the Colonial Pact -- Conclusion: Ending the Colonial Curse: Lessons from Fanon.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword Mariana Wikinski -- References -- Introduction : The Difficulty of Acknowledging Colonial Trauma -- The history of French colonization in Algeria: a blank space in memory and politics -- A much-needed interdisciplinary approach -- 1 Psychoanalysis and Algerian Paradoxes -- Disarray of the private and public spheres -- God's reinforcement of failing institutions -- The power of religion and the religion of power -- The literary text and the invisible staging of power -- The power of the "language, religion, and politics" (LRP) bloc as revealed by clinical psychoanalysis -- The duplicity of subjects confronting censorship from the LRP -- Abandoned citizenship and speech acts -- 2 Colonial Rupture -- The colony: the rogue child of the Enlightenment -- Colonialism's destruction of social cohesion -- A colonial republic divided, or the "duty to civilize [the] barbarians" -- 1945: a literature of refusal is born -- Nedjma: an esthetic of colonial destruction? -- Disrupting genealogical ties: the effect of "renaming" Algerians in the 1880s -- Subjective catastrophes and the disappearance of the father as symbolic reference -- Writing against anonymous filiation -- Jean El Mouhoub Amrouche: a broken voice -- 3 Colonialism Consumed by War -- 1945-1954: the necessity of war -- The impossibility of forgetting and madness, a "remedy" for disappearance -- Silencing the unforgettable mutilation of bodies -- Toulouse, 2012: the return of murder -- Constructing the "nation" -- The writer's pressing need: transform disappearance into absence -- 4 Colonialism's Devastating Effects on Post-Independence Algeria -- The mutilated body of the colonized and the hunger for reparation -- Colonial hogra and a frantic quest for legitimacy -- The "orphaning" effect of colonialism and its impact.

"Aimé Césaire's work is foundational for colonial and postcolonial thought. In this unique volume, his responses to Françoise Vergès' questions range over the origins of his political activism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, the question of reparation for slavery and the problems of marrying literature to politics"--