The wretched of the earth

Fanon, Frantz

The wretched of the earth - London : Penguin, 1967. - 255p. ; 20 cm. - Penguin modern classics . - Penguin modern classics. .

Translation of: Les damnés de la terre. This translation originally published: London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1965. Published by Penguin books 1967, reprinted in Penguin Classics 2001.

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.

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Poverty
Politics
Psychotherapy
Mental disorders
History
Race
Racial discrimination
Culture


Algeria
Developing countries

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