The Wretched of the Earth

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By Frantz Fanon & Cornel West &

Publisher Description

The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel West

First published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. Alongside Cornel West’s introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha. This sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon’s most famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism and anti-racism as Edward Said’s Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

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“3.75 I finally finished Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and it was a ride. One of the things that sucked me the most was his warning on the persistence of neocolonial structures (esp economic and cultural), which has made me interested in picking up Kwame Nkrumah’s Neocolonialism esp since it was influenced by Fanon.The first essay "On Violence" is one of the most famous parts of the book, but it wasn’t something I personally dwelled on much, even after reading Hannah Arendt’s critique of Fanon’s rhetoric and Homi K Bhabha’s counter critique. Now things that i have complaints on -Fanon’s emphasis on rural peasants and the lumpenproletariat as the primary revolutionary agents in the struggle for decolonization rather than the urban proletariat like other Marxists but he does not sufficiently address how their leadership would be structured to prevent disorganization and aimlessness in the revolutionary process. I would have appreciated a more developed discussion on economic planning for newly independent nations, Fanon calls for centralization, local governance, and economic restructuring but this simple analysis lacks a concrete framework for preventing the postcolonial bourgeoisie from perpetuating extractive economic practices that maintain systemic inequality which he warned multiple times about. I found Fanon’s lack of engagement with gender in the colonial experience to be a major black hole and I don’t entirely buy Denean Sharpley-Whiting’s explanation for its exclusion. That said I’m really glad to have finally read the book”

About Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique in 1925. He served in the French Army during World War II, and later studied medicine and psychiatry in France, where he published his first book, Black Skin, White Masks in 1952. He joined the Algerian Nationalist Movement in the mid-1950s, and published The Wretched of the Earth shortly before dying of leukemia in December 1961.