The Wretched of the EarthThe sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel West First 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. |
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On National Culture Mutual Foundations for National Culture and Liberation Struggles V. Colonial War and Mental Disorders Series A Series B Series C Series D From the North African's Criminal Impulsiveness to the War of National ...
... Fanon was admitted to the hospital as Ibrahim Fanon , a supposedly “ Libyan ” nom de guerre he had assumed to enter a hospital in Rome after being wounded in Morocco during a mission for the Algerian National Liberation Front .
... White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth , evoke the concrete and contrasting worlds of colonial racism as experienced in metropolitan France in the 1950s and during the anticolonial Algerian war of liberation a decade later .
Decolonization demands a sustained , quotidian commitment to the struggle for national liberation , for when the high , heady wind of revolution loses its velocity , there is no “ question of bridging the gap in one giant stride .
... in 1954 to form the Front de Libération Nationale ( FLN ) . Hussein Bulhan describes the process : “ Gradually those who for decades sought assimilation into French society and the traditional nationalists joined forces in the FLN .
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Review: The Wretched of the Earth
معاينة المستخدمين - Mara - GoodreadsThis is a hard one to rate. Fanon is a brilliant theorist of colonialism, racism, and the psychology of decolonization (female subjectivity, however, is conspicuously absent from his account), and The ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله