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Frantz Fanon

    July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961

    Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary from Martinique, stands as a pivotal thinker in post-colonial studies. His work intensely scrutinizes the psychopathology of colonization, offering profound insights into the psychological impacts of oppression. Fanon's revolutionary ideas have resonated deeply, inspiring anti-colonial liberation movements for decades. His analysis of power, race, and identity continues to shape critical discourse.

    Frantz Fanon
    The Psychiatric Writings from Alienation and Freedom
    Black skin, white masks
    The Plays from Alienation and Freedom
    A Dying Colonialism
    The Wretched of the Earth
    Towards the African Revolution
    • This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon s landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment necessary for their liberation. These pieces display the genesis of some of Fanon s greatest ideas ideas that became so vital to the leaders of the American civil rights movement.

      Towards the African Revolution
    • A Dying Colonialism

      • 181 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      4.3(1185)Add rating

      Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks . He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world. A Dying Colonialism is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in order to destroy those oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression. This is a strong, lucid, and militant book; to read it is to understand why Fanon says that for the colonized, "having a gun is the only chance you still have of giving a meaning to your death."

      A Dying Colonialism
    • Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for theatre developed during the years that he was studying medicine, and in 1949 he wrote the plays The Drowning Eye (L'Œil se noie), and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles). This first English translation of the works gives us a Fanon at his most lyrical, experimental and provocative

      The Plays from Alienation and Freedom
    • The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon ... or too late.First published in English in 1968, Frantz Fanon's seminal text was immediately acclaimed as a classic of black liberationalist writing. Fanon's descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy and dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world are as salient and as compelling as ever. Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. His writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation in our troubled times.

      Black skin, white masks