The Wretched of the Earth
Preface by - Jean-Paul Sartre
Translator - Constance Farrington
Penguin Classics
Paperback
: 06 Dec 2001
£9.99
Synopsis
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.Reviews
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'In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage, he showed us the internal theatre of racism'.
Independent
