The Wretched of the Earth

Fanon, Frantz (1963) The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press, New York. ISBN 0802150837

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Abstract

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization, The Wretched of the Earth made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century Translated from the French by Constance Farrington, with an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's classic text has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since, analysing the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for freedom. With power and anger, Fanon makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. It was Fanon, himself a psychotherapist, who exposed the connection between colonial war and mental disease, who showed how the fight for freedom must be combined with building a national culture, and who showed the way ahead, through revolutionary violence, to socialism.

Item Type:	Book
Additional Information:	Scanned version of original.
ISBN:	0802150837
Publisher:	Grove Press
Place of Publication:	New York
Status:	Published
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2020 10:53
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2020 10:53
URI:	https://ebooks.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/334

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