Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925-61) trained as a
psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria.
He had already experienced racism as a volunteer in the Free French
Army, in which he saw combat at the end of the Second World War. In
Algeria, Fanon came into contact with the Front de Liberation
Nationale, whose ruthless struggle for independence was met with
exceptional violence from the French forces. He identified closely
with the liberation movement, and his political sympathies
eventually forced him out the country, whereupon he became a
propagandist and ambassador for the FLN, as well as a seminal
anticolonial theorist. David Macey's eloquent life of Fanon
provides a comprehensive account of a complex individual's
personal, intellectual and political development. It is also a
richly detailed depiction of postwar French culture. Fanon is
revealed as a flawed and passionate humanist deeply committed to
eradicating colonialism. Now updated with new historical material,
Frantz Fanon remains the definitive biography of a truly
revolutionary thinker.
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