Fanon

¹ American  

[fan-uhn, fa-nawn] / ˈfæn ən, faˈnɔ̃ /

noun

1. Frantz (Omar) 1925–61, West Indian psychiatrist and political theorist, born in Martinique; in Algeria after 1953.

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fanon ² American  

[fan-uhn] / ˈfæn ən /

noun

Ecclesiastical.

1. a maniple.

2. Also called orale.  a striped scarflike vestment worn by the pope over the alb when celebrating solemn Pontifical Mass.

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fanon British  

/ ˈfænən /

noun

1. a collar-shaped vestment worn by the pope when celebrating mass

2. (formerly) various pieces of embroidered fabric used in the liturgy

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Etymology

Origin of fanon

1350–1400; Middle English fano ( u ) n < Anglo-French; Old French fanum < Old Low Franconian *fano piece of fabric; compare Old High German, Old Saxon fano in same sense ( German Fahne flag), early Medieval Latin fano maniple; vane, gonfalon

Example Sentences

The controversy gained traction because of Smith’s record of championing the marginalized, citing theorists like Frantz Fanon while targeting empires and the omnipresent patriarchy.

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Fanon is here as well, amid an array of artists and authors such as Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.

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In examining the lives of five men — Malcolm X, Frantz Fanon, Matthew Henson, Ira Aldridge and Justin Fashanu — Eshun, a British writer, curator and broadcaster, explores Black masculinity in the context of history: how it gets made and who gets to write and tell it.

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Reading “James” is like reading Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth” or watching “Get Out” for the first time — thrilling, eye-opening and gut-wrenching.

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Others on board included modernist Russian poet and a Trotskyite anarchist Victor Serge, Martinican poet and a founder of the anticolonialism Négritude movement Aimé Césaire, Cuban painter Wifredo Lam; influential Marxist psychiatrist and Pan-Africanist Frantz Fanon, along with fascinating others.

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