The wretched of the earth
By: Pref. by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by Constance Farrington
Edition: 1st evergreen ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Aggression; Civilization; Neurotic Disorders; Social Psychology; Colonies; History; Offenses against the person
Work titles: Damnés de la terre
Description: "Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence, Frantz Fanon's classic text has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since. With power and anger, Fanon makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. It was Fanon, himself a psychotherapist, who exposed the connection between colonial war and mental disease, who showed how the fight for freedom must be combined with building a national culture, and who showed the way ahead, through revolutionary violence, to socialism. Many of the great calls to arms from the era of decolonization are now purely of historical interest, yet this passionate analysis of the relations between the great powers and the Third World is just as illuminating about the world we live in today." -- Publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Concerning Violence --; title: Violence in the International Context --; title: Spontaneity: Its Strengh and Weakness --; title: Pitfalls of National Consciousness --; title: On National Culture --; title: Colonial War and Mental Disorders --; title: Series A-D --; title: Conclusion