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The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

  • 256 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1961
  • 77 editions
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1 About this book

The Wretched of the Earth is an analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage of colonized peoples and the role of violence in historical change, the book also incisively attacks postindependence disenfranchisement of the masses by the elite on one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other.

A veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black-consciousness movements around the world.

  • Politics and government
  • Africa
  • Revolutions
  • Social psychology
  • Politics
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Colonies

2 About Frantz Fanon

1925–1961

Frantz Omar Fanon (, US: ; French:; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a French psychiatrist and political philosopher, who made critical contributions to the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory. As well as an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical and Pan-Africanist, concerned with the psychopathology of colonization and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.

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