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The Wretched of the Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book by the philosopher Frantz Fanon, in which the author provides a psychoanalysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization upon the individual and the nation, and discusses the broader social, cultural, and political implications of establishing a social movement for the decolonisation of a person and of a people.
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Toward the African Revolution (French: Pour la Revolution Africaine) is a collection of essays written by Frantz Fanon, which was published in 1964, [1] after Fanon's death. The essays in the book were written from 1952 to 1961, between the publication of his two most famous works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth .
Frantz Omar Fanon was born on 20 July 1925 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, which was then part of the French colonial empire.His father, Félix Casimir Fanon, worked as a customs officer, while Fanon's mother, Eléanore Médélice, who was of Afro-Caribbean and Alsatian descent, was a shopkeeper. [17]
In a new age of revolutionary protest, the late radical theorist Frantz Fanon is ever-present. Adam Shatz uncovers his actual life in 'The Rebel's Clinic' Frantz Fanon, the original 'decolonizer ...
The work is often read in conjunction with Frantz Fanon's Les damnés de la Terre (The Wretched of the Earth) and Peau noire, masques blancs (Black Skin, White Masks) and Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism. Several decades later, Memmi published a follow-up book called Decolonization and the Decolonized.
Frantz Fanon discusses his theories and the impact on Algerian colonial society in his book, The Wretched of the Earth. Porot had a son, Maurice Porot (born 1912), [2] who followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a psychiatrist, teaching at Alger (1958-1962) then at Clermont-Ferrand (1965-1982). [3]