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The Wretched of the Earth

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Description for The Wretched of the Earth Paperback. Provides inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since, analysing the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for freedom. In this book, the author makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. Translator(s): Farrington, Constance. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFG; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 194.

'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis

Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141186542
SKU
V9780141186542
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About Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon (1925 - 1961) was an author from Martinique, essayist, psychoanalyst, and revolutionary. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades.

Reviews for The Wretched of the Earth
This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism
Angela Davis Have the courage to read this book
Jean-Paul Sartre Fanon details the impact of colonialism on the psyches of black people. For the first time, I was able to understand empire as more than just an economic phenomenon, and in turn how much Africa's decolonisation was expected ... Read more

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