THE PLAYS FROM ALIENATION AND FREEDOM, edited by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young, translated by Steven Corcoran

256pp., illus., paperback, Bloomsbury, London, 2021

ISBN: 9781350126572

First published in French in 2015 in Ecrits sur L'Alienation et La Liberte. First published in Alienation and Freedom in the UK in 2018.

Includes two plays written by Frantz Fanon in 1949: The Drowning Eye (L'Oeil se noie) and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles).

Martinique-born psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) is the author of Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961).

Jean Khalfa is a senior lecturer in French Studies at Trinity College Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Poetics of the Antilles and an upcoming work on Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.

Robert Young, FBA, is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University, USA. He is the author of White Mythologies, Colonial Desire, Postcolonialism: An historical introduction, The Idea of English Ethnicity and Empire, Colony, Postcolony.

Steven Corcoran has edited and/or translated works by Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou and Alienation and Freedom by Frantz Fanon.