• THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH, preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Constance Farrington

THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH, preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Constance Farrington

: Fanon (F,)

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255pp., paperback, Reprint, London, (1965) 2001

ISBN: 9780141186542

 

Originally published in French in 1961 as Les damnés de la terre.

Frantz Fanon on the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by racism and colonisation. Written during the Algerian war for independence. 

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was born in Martinique and studied medicine in France, specializing in psychiatry. Sent to work in a hospital in Algeria, he later joined the Algerian Nationalist Movement. He is the author of Black Skin, White Masks, first published in French in 1952 as Peau Noire, Masques Blancs.