The Wretched of the Earth
by:
Frantz Fanon (author)
Richard Philcox (translator)
Homi K. Bhabha (contributor)
Jean-Paul Sartre (contributor)
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon’s masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said’s Orientalism or...
show more
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon’s masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said’s Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting historical change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of postindependence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. Fanon’s analysis, a veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, has been reflected all too clearly in the corruption and violence that has plagued present-day Africa. The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world, and this bold new translation by Richard Philcox reaffirms it as a landmark.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802141323 (0802141323)
ASIN: 802141323
Publish date: March 12th 2005
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
This was a very useful and relevant read. The message it conveys should provide the US with some insight as to why its policies in the Middle East may be backfiring while reminding nationalists that independence is merely the first step to building a nation, not the end goal. The discussion on natio...
A Marxist analysis on colonialism & its effect as well as decolonization process & pitfalls to avoid. I'm not sure if it is influenced by Maoism to some extend. IMHO some things are easier said than done, as half a century after the publication of this book the FLN & most other third-world socialist...