Frantz Fanon: a theatre of embodiment.

我的项目“弗朗茨·法农：化身剧院”是对法农戏剧《溺水的眼睛》和《平行的手》（1949）的首次批判性研究。借鉴我的艺术实践，作为他们在英语世界首演的导演-策展人（亲笔画廊，伦敦，2017），我的研究考察了法农和戏剧，从我与让·哈利法共同撰写的章节“全球南方文学的劳特利奇伴侣”（即将出版，2023）发展而来。法农主要以反殖民理论家而闻名。他的戏剧被忽视了。与他1952-1961年出版的开创性作品（《黑皮肤，白面具》、《地球的不幸》）相比，这些戏剧于2017年首次出版。继Khalfa和Young的《异化与自由》（2017）和“黑人的生命也很重要”运动（2020）之后，这个项目重新引起了人们对《法农》（Laubscher, 2021）的兴趣。因此，我的项目对法农戏剧的内容和他作为戏剧创作者的角色如何为他作为精神病临床医生和政治活动家的工作提供了一个时间和主题基础，提供了一个原创的、及时的考察。我通过探索他们的内容如何与法农批判作品中更广泛的思想联系起来——特别是与身体和精神有关——并展示他的作品中的表演如何告知21世纪戏剧从业者的社会责任来解决这一研究差距。这个项目结合了现象学和戏剧（Rayner, 2006）以及现象学和法农（Weate, 2021）的批判方法。我认为，法农对戏剧化角色的哲学/精神病学研究使法农能够将戏剧作为隐喻和形式来发挥、测试和修改他后来作为“自由病理学”的身份结构（安德斯，1935-1936）。为此，我仔细分析了法农的戏剧以及影响他的戏剧作家/实践者的案例研究/戏剧：2.研究法农作品的新历史背景（1949年凯瑟琳·邓纳姆的当代舞蹈戏剧表演）；2 .研究他作品中与亚陶和超现实主义有关的原创理论范式（Bromley-Hall, Khalfa, 2023）；揭示了法农使用“游戏世界”中被忽视的档案资源——部分是通过他与诺丁汉精神病学家邓肯·麦克米伦的通信发展起来的。使用混合研究方法，我将文本和表现分析与精神病学，政治哲学，后殖民研究，法国文学和戏剧的跨学科来源结合起来。由于我的方法是基于我导演戏剧的经验，我的方法也是自我民族志，包括对表演、日记、制作材料、与演员的对话和录音的反思。民族志研究也将通过口述历史（阿尔及利亚Blida-Joinville医院的前工作人员；Celestins; Khalfa, Young， Mehdi Lalloui：纪录片制片人，“法农的足迹”）进行，我与法农遗产的现有关系促进了参与者的接触，并在列出的地方进行档案研究（“场外研究活动”）。否则是不可能的，资金将使我能够资助对这些戏剧的历史，特定地点和场景背景化的重要档案研究。除了提供跨学科的法农新见解之外，这位博士还有几个计划产出，确保我的研究在学术界之外得到传播：法农戏剧专著指南（Routledge Focus, 2025/6）；多媒体戏剧改编（新艺术交流，诺丁汉；新视角）；广播制作（目前正在从法国出版商La decoverte获得表演权）。

My project, 'Frantz Fanon: a Theatre of Embodiment' is the first critical study of Fanon's plays: 'The Drowning Eye' and 'Parallel Hands' (1949). Drawing on my artistic practice as director-curator of their world premiere in the English language (Autograph Gallery, London, 2017), my research examines Fanon and theatre, developed from my co-authored chapter with Jean Khalfa for 'The Routledge Companion to Global South Literatures' (forthcoming, 2023).Fanon is primarily known as anti-colonial theorist. His theatre has been overlooked. In contrast to his seminal works, published 1952-1961 ('Black Skin, White Masks'; 'The Wretched of the Earth') the plays were first published in 2017. This project contributes to renewed interest in Fanon (Laubscher, 2021) following Khalfa and Young's 'Alienation and Freedom' (2017) and the resurgence of the BlackLivesMatter movement (2020). My project thus offers an original, timely examination of how the content of Fanon's plays and his role as theatre-maker provided a chronological and thematic foundation to his work as psychiatric clinician and political activist.I address this research gap by exploring how their content relates to wider thought in Fanon's critical oeuvre - especially related to body and psyche - and demonstrating how performance in his work informs social responsibilities of twenty-first century theatre practitioners. This project combines critical approaches in phenomenology and theatre (Rayner, 2006) and phenomenology and Fanon (Weate, 2021). I propose that Fanon's philosophical/psychiatric investigations of dramatized character enable Fanon to use theatre as metaphor - and form - to play, test, and revise his later constructions of identity as 'pathology of freedom' (Anders, 1935-1936). Doing this, I closely analyse Fanon's plays alongside case studies/ plays by theatrical writers/practitioners who influenced him:1. examining new, historical contexts for Fanon's work (in Katherine Dunham's contemporary dance theatre performances, 1949);2. examining original, theoretical paradigms for his work, relating to Artaud and surrealism (Bromley-Hall, Khalfa, 2023);3. uncovering overlooked archival resources in Fanon's use of 'playworlds' - developed partly through his correspondence with Nottingham psychiatrist, Duncan Macmillan.MethodologyUsing blended research methods, I combine textual and performance analysis with interdisciplinary sources on psychiatry, political philosophy, postcolonial studies, French Literature, and theatre. As my approach is underpinned by my experience directing the plays, my method is also autoethnographic, including reflection on promptbooks from performances, diaries, production materials, conversations with actors, and recordings. Ethnographic research will also be conducted through oral histories (former personnel at Blida-Joinville Hospital, Algeria; Celestins; Khalfa, Young, Mehdi Lalloui: documentary filmmaker, 'In the Footsteps of Fanon') with access to participants facilitated by my existing relationship with Fanon's estate - and archival research conducted in places listed ('Offsite Research Activities').Otherwise impossible, funding would enable me to finance vital archival research into the historical, site-specific and scenographic contextualisation of these plays.ImpactBeyond offering new Fanon insights across disciplines, this PhD has several planned outputs, ensuring dissemination of my research beyond the academy: monograph guide to Fanon's theatre (Routledge Focus, 2025/6); multi-media play adaptation (New Art Exchange, Nottingham; New Perspectives); radio production (performance rights currently being obtained from French publishers, La Decouverte).