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'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism'
Angela Davis 'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in
words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage,
Fanon showed us the internal theatre of racism' Deborah Levy Frantz
Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the
psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white
world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to
explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices,
eventually emulating the 'white masks' of their oppressors, it
established Fanon as a revolutionary anti-colonialist thinker. 'So
hard to put down ... a brilliant, vivid and hurt mind, walking the
thin line that separates effective outrage from despair' The New
York Times Book Review
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The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
Frantz Fanon; Introduction by Cornel West; Translated by Richard Philcox; Foreword by Homi K. Bhabha; Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre
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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.
The Wretched of the Earth is a classic, political work which has gained
prominence in SA during the recent student (and political) uprisings. It is an in-
depth analysis of the effects of colonisation on the individual in society. It
examines the consequences of a decolonising struggle and the needed path to
liberation. Themes of class, race, violence and culture are discussed, and this
book has had a major impact on civil and human rights, anti-colonialism, and
black consciousness movements around the world, and is currently hotly-debated
in SA.
Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence, Frantz Fanon's classic text has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since. 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. Many of the great calls to arms from the era of decolonization are now purely of historical interest, yet this passionate analysis of the relations between the great powers and the Third World is just as illuminating about the world we live in today.
Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a
playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor
continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for
theatre developed during the years that he was studying medicine,
and in 1949 he wrote the plays The Drowning Eye (L’Œil se noie),
and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles). This first English
translation of the works gives us a Fanon at his most lyrical,
experimental and provocative.
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Dying Colonialism (Paperback)
Frantz Fanon; Translated by Haakon Chevalier
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Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year
of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary,
Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time,
the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as
The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a
profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black
consciousness movements around the world. A Dying Colonialism is
Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the
Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old
cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices
long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in
order to destroy those oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the
Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of
the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression. This is a strong,
lucid, and militant book; to read it is to understand why Fanon
says that for the colonized, "having a gun is the only chance you
still have of giving a meaning to your death."
This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the
period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of
the Earth (1961), Fanon's landmark manifesto on the psychology of
the colonized and the means of empowerment necessary for their
liberation. These pieces display the genesis of some of Fanon's
greatest ideas ideas that became so vital to the leaders of the
American civil rights movement.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black
identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and "Black Skin,
White Masks " represents some of his most important work. Fanon's
masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its
language for a new generation of readers.
A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black
consciousness movements around the world, "Black Skin, White Masks"
is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world.
Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was
first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from
one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle,
colonialism, and racial difference in history.
Frantz Fanon’s political impact is difficult to overestimate. His
anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were
among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays,
articles and notes published in this volume cover the most
politically active period of his life and encapsulate the breadth,
depth and urgency of his writings. In particular, they clarify and
amplify his much-debated views on violent resistance. These works
provide new complexity to our understanding of Fanon and reveal
just how relevant his thinking is to the contemporary world and how
important his ideas are to changing it.
Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as
an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work
was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France,
Algeria and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from
1951 to 1960 in tandem with his political work and reveals much
about how Fanon’s thought developed, showing that, for him,
psychiatry was part of a much wider socio-political struggle. His
political, revolutionary and literary lives should not then be
separated from the psychiatric practice and writings that shaped
his thinking about oppression, alienation and the search for
freedom.
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Alienation and Freedom (Hardcover)
Frantz Fanon; Translated by Steven Corcoran; Edited by Jean Khalfa, Robert J.C. Young
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Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's
work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals
and activists from the 60s to the present day. Alienation and
Freedom collects together unpublished works comprising around half
of his entire output - which were previously inaccessible or
thought to be lost. This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon,
a more personal Fanon and one whose literary and psychiatric works,
in particular, take centre stage. These writings provide new depth
and complexity to our understanding of Fanon's entire oeuvre
revealing more of his powerful thinking about identity, race and
activism which remain remarkably prescient. Shedding new light on
the work of a major 20th-century philosopher, this disruptive and
moving work will shape how we look at the world.
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