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Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)

Autor(a) de The Wretched of the Earth

38+ Works 7,604 Membros 52 Críticas 15 Favorited

About the Author

Martinique islander by birth and a psychiatrist by training, Franz Fanon is better known as a pan-African revolutionary ideologue. His treatises on colonialism call for revolutionary confrontation with malignant colonial regimes, where necessary on the battlefield, and, more important, for the mostrar mais eradication of the most invidious form of colonialism, namely, colonial mentality. Fanon holds that this mentality prevents the African and the black person everywhere even from being aware of the seriousness of the social and personal deprivations of his or her colonized status. Fanon found his voice when he worked for the Algerian revolutionaries during the Algerian War of Independence against the French. Not only did he become deeply involved in the Algerian struggle, he also emerged as its principal ideologue and formulated his anticolonial writings from the Algerian experience. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras por Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth (1961) 4,206 exemplares
Black Skin, White Masks (1952) 2,390 exemplares
A Dying Colonialism (1959) 439 exemplares
Toward the African Revolution (1964) 272 exemplares
Alienation and Freedom (2015) 88 exemplares
Concerning Violence (2008) 51 exemplares
The Fanon Reader (2006) 21 exemplares
Oeuvres (2011) 12 exemplares
Escritos políticos (2019) 11 exemplares
I dannati della terra 8 exemplares
The Fact of Blackness (2015) 5 exemplares

Associated Works

The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest (1998) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
African Literature: an anthology of criticism and theory (2007) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Frantz Fanon, psychiatry and politics (2017) — Associated Name — 10 exemplares

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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.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | 29 outras críticas | Mar 22, 2024 |
Black Skin, White Masks is psychologist Frantz Fanon’s analysis of the BlackSkinWhiteMaskspsychological pathologies produced by colonialism, in the West in general and in the French Antilles, in particular. Fanon’s main thesis is that colonialism and racism corrupt the psyche of both blacks and whites, albeit in different ways: “the Negro enslaved by his inferiority [and] the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.”
 
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PendleHillLibrary | 15 outras críticas | Mar 22, 2024 |
This book by Frantz Fanon is relevant today. The context of the book is Algeria and French colonialism, so it is interesting for anyone studying French colonialism in Algeria. However, the lessons are timeless.
Many countries suffered from colonialism and continue to struggle to find their national character in the post-colonial world.
Franz Fanton's writing, while balanced, conceals deep anger. There is anger he directs at the colonialists and towards native people who copy the colonialists and exploit their fellow citizens.
The last chapter, in which he talks about some of the mental problems arising from colonialism, is powerful.
The conclusion calls for his citizens to find themselves and not copy their old masters.
This book is brilliant and relevant today.
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RajivC | 29 outras críticas | Jan 4, 2024 |
Pretty amazing. The final chapter, talking about his experience dealing with those traumatised in various ways by colonialism and the war as well as the bullshit given as explanations of Algerian behaviour by French psychiatrists, is horrifying and incredible. He has a great writing style which is clear and gets you caught up in his ideas of liberation - although I sometimes wish he said more on certain issues or whatever, you get a very clear picture of what he thinks. His descriptions of the problems of decolonisation ring true today. Important stuff if you're at all interested in the topic.… (mais)
 
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tombomp | 29 outras críticas | Oct 31, 2023 |

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Obras
38
Also by
4
Membros
7,604
Popularidade
#3,212
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
52
ISBN
162
Línguas
18
Marcado como favorito
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