The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
The bible of decolonization, written by a psychiatrist.
you want to understand colonialism as a psychological condition as well as a political one
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Fanon was a Martiniquais psychiatrist treating Algerian patients traumatized by the French colonial war. This book — written in ten weeks as he was dying of leukemia — is the result: a theory of colonialism, decolonization, and the psychology of the oppressed that changed the world. Preface by Sartre. Used by liberation movements across Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Still the most comprehensive single account of what colonialism does to the minds of everyone it touches — the colonized, the colonizer, and the intellectual caught between them.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Algeria • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Algerian author
- Themes
- After EmpireWitness
