Frantz Fanon

"First 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 masterful and 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...

Pocos autores han tenido un impacto tan profundo sobre la identidad negra como Frantz Fanon, cuya obra ha ejercido una poderosa influencia sobre el movimiento de los derechos civiles, los movimientos anticoloniales y los movimientos por la conciencia negra de todo el mundo, desde el Black Power hasta los Black Panthers pasando por buena parte de los movimientos de liberación nacional de África y Asia. El racismo y el colonialismo todavía dejan...

"Alienation and Freedom collects together previously unpublished works comprising around half of his entire output - which were previously inaccessible or thought to be lost.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...

Fanon, born in Martinique and educated in France, is generally regarded as the leading anti-colonial thinker of the 20th century. His first book is an analysis of the impact of colonial subjugation on the black psyche. It is a very personal account of Fanon's experience being black: as a man, an intellectual, and a party to a French education.--Adapted from wikipedia.org.