![]() Only available as part of our 3 for £21 Penguin Modern Classics collection. 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. ![]() With power and anger, Fanon makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's classic text has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since, analysing the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for freedom. Colonial Violence and Mental Disorders: an extract from Frantz Fanons The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon 9 October 2015 Frantz Fanon s The Wretched of the Earth (1961) was a seminal publication, analysing the psychological and psychiatric effects of colonialism upon the colonised subject. His experiences power the searing indictment of colonialism that is his final book, 1961’s The Wretched of the Earth. Translated from the French by Constance Farrington, with an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre African Revolution, Frantz Fanon, Wretched of The Earth, Africa, History, Economics. ![]() Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization, The Wretched of the Earth made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century ![]()
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