Author of the Month: Frantz Fanon
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Our Author of the Month for October is the psychiatrist, activist, playwright and political theorist Frantz Fanon.
Born in Martinique (French West Indies) in 1925, he experienced the colonial racism of the collaborationist Vichy regime that governed Martinique from 1940 to 1943. After having served in the Free French Army in Morocco, Algeria and Alsace he studied psychiatry, philosophy and literature in Lyon, and his works are a remarkable blend of those disciplines, emphasising the psychological impact of racism on its victims as well as the philosophical concepts underlying racial theory.
His first book, Black Skin, White Masks was published in 1952. His masterpiece The Wretched of the Earth, a trenchant defence of the right of the oppressed to rebel against their oppressors, was published shortly before his death from leukaemia in 1961.
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Translated by Constance Farrington'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela DavisWritten at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz…
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Translated by Richard Philcox 'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage,…
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Translated by Steven CorcoranFrantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria and…
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Translated by Steven CorcoranFrantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays, articles and notes…
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Translated by Steven CorcoranPrior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for theatre…
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Translated by Steven CorcoranSince the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day. Alienation and…
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Frantz Fanon may be most known for his more obviously political writings, but in the first instance, he was a clinician, a black Caribbean psychiatrist who had the improbable task of treating disturbed and traumatized North African patients…
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