Frantz Fanon
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: October 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9781862071681
Subjects: Biography: general; Colonization & independence; International relations; Revolutions & coups
First sentence: EARLY IN MAY 1962, a French journalist working for the daily Le Monde arrived in Ghardimao, a small Tunisian town only a few kilometers from the border with Algeria.
Description: "Based on extensive and original research, this is the most complete and objective biography of Fanon yet written. It chips away the myths that have grown up around him and reveals Fanon to be a complex figure, infinitely more interesting than the theorist of anti-colonial violence celebrated by the left in the 1960s. Macey shows Fanon to have been a man formed by his experiences, and places him sensitively in the context of the French Caribbean, with its history of slavery and racism. The author traces Fanon's intellectual career as a political thinker and psychiatrist with great care, setting it against the background of post-war French culture. And Fanon's Algerian phase and the writings that came out of it were, in Macey's brilliant account, inevitably overshadowed by the harrowing violence of a terrible war."--BOOK JACKET.