The Wretched of the Earth
- ISBN-10
- 0802141323
- ISBN-13
- 9780802141323
- Series
- The Wretched of the Earth
- Category
- Algeria
- Pages
- 251
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Author
- Frantz Fanon
Description
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 post independence 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.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics
By J. Daniel ElamWorld Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability.
-
Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings
By James Yaki Sayles'-James Yaki SaylesOne of those who eagerly picked up Fanon in the 60s, who carried out armed expropriations and violence against white settlers, Sayles reveals how, behind the image of Fanon as race thinker, there is an underlying reality ...
-
An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth
By Riley QuinnIncendiary even today, it was more so in its time; the book first being published during the brutal conflict caused by the Algerian Revolution.
-
Frantz Fanon and Emancipatory Social Theory: A View from the Wretched
(City Lights Books, 2017), and Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, Manifest Destiny. Book One: Dreaming of Empire (Prison Radio, 2018). For over twenty years he has delivered weekly radio commentaries, focusing on issues of race, ...
-
"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth": The First International in a Global Perspective
By Quentin Deluermoz, Fabrice Bensimon, Jeanne MoisandThe IWMA struggled for the emancipation of labour. It organised solidarity with strikers. It took sides in major events, such as the 1871 Paris Commune. It soon appeared as a threat to European powers, which vilified and prosecuted it.
-
FANON TODAY
By NIGEL GIBSONTo mark the sixtieth anniversary of Fanon's death (in 1961), the contributors to this book address the resonances of Fanon's thinking on movements of resistance and mass revolutionary uprisings occurring in response to repression or state ...
-
Alienation and Freedom
By Frantz FanonThis book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more personal Fanon and one whose literary and psychiatric works, in particular, take centre stage.
-
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.It's an image— that ofa small group of triumphant souls, weary but determined, arms linked in a gloriously liminal dance with death—that's reminiscent of the one that concludes Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal.
-
Frantz Fanon
By Pramod K. NayarThis book serves as an introduction to the views of the anticolonial thinker Frantz Fanon and charts his influence on postcolonial studies, literary critism, and cultural studies.
-
Loving Che
By Ana MenéndezIn this “evocative first novel,” an elderly woman looks back on the world of revolutionary Cuba as she recalls her intimate, secret love affair with Ernesto “Che” Guevara (Publishers Weekly).