Author

Contributions

  • Richard Philcox - Translator
  • Jean-Paul Sartre - Introduction
  • Homi K. Bhabha - Introduction
  • Philcox, Richard. - Contributor

Publication

2004 - Grove Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

62,750 words, Guess

Page Count

251 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2004042476
  • LibraryThing315
  • Goodreads66933

Classifications

  • DDC960/.0971244
  • LCCDT33 .F313 2004
  • DDC325.3/44/0965

Description

"The Wretched of the Earth is an analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage of colonized peoples and the role of violence in historical change, the book also incisively attacks postindependence disenfranchisement of the masses by the elite on one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. A veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black-consciousness movements around the world."--Jacket.

First Sentence

National liberation, national reawakening, restoration of the nation to the people or Commonwealth, whatever the name used, whatever the latest expression, decolonization is always a violent event.

Description

"Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth century's most important theorists of revolution, colonialism, and racial difference, and this, his masterwork, is a classic alongside Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X." "The Wretched of the Earth is an analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage of colonized peoples and the role of violence in historical change, the book also incisively attacks postindependence disenfranchisement of the masses by the elite on one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. A veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black-consciousness movements around the world. This new translation updates its language for a new generation of readers and its lessons are more vital now than ever."--BOOK JACKET.

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