The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

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Author(s)

Frantz Fanon

Publication

London : Penguin, 2001

Scope

256 Pages, 20 cm.

ISBN

9780141186542

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First published in 1961 ‘Wretched of the Earth’ 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. Fanon, himself a distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, exposed the connection between colonial war and mental disease. He argued that the fight for freedom should be combined with building a national culture, and that the way ahead to socialism was through revolutionary violence. With his works, Fanon has been one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.

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Keywords

decolonisation

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