Name: The Wretched of the Earth
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Author: Frantz Fanon
ISBN: 9780802158635

Type

Physical Book

Author

Introduction by

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Publisher

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780802158635

Synopsis "The Wretched of the Earth "

The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon's landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel WestFirst published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. Alongside Cornel West's introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha. This sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon's most famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism and anti-racism as Edward Said's Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Frantz Fanon

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Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique. He studied medicine in France, becoming the director of the psychiatric hospital in Blida-Joinville (Algeria) in 1953 where he closely collaborated with the Algerian National Liberation Front. Expelled from Algeria in 1957, he settled in Tunisia to work with the Provisional Government of the Algerian Revolution, being appointed ambassador to Ghana in 1960. Among his books are L'an V de la révolution algérienne (1959), Les damnés de la terre (1961) and Pour la révolution africaine (1964).

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