![]() ![]() ![]() Though it has flaws, The Wretched of the Earth is above all a testament to the power of passionately sustained and closely reasoned argument: Fanon’s presentation of his evidence combines with his passion to produce an argument that it is almost impossible not to be swayed by. Viewed as a profoundly dangerous work by the colonial powers of the world, Fanon’s book helped to inspire liberation struggles across the globe. ![]() Incendiary even today, it was more so in its time the book first being published during the brutal conflict caused by the Algerian Revolution. ![]() Fanon’s account of the physical and psychological violence of colonialism forms the basis of a passionate, closely reasoned call to arms – a call for violent revolution. His experiences power the searing indictment of colonialism that is his final book, 1961’s The Wretched of the Earth. In philosopher Frantz Fanon’s seminal non-fiction novel on the Algerian War, The Wretched of the Earth, he argues that colonialism and violence are synonymous with one another. Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies – the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world.īorn in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another French colony that saw brutal violence during its revolution against French rule. Colonial Violence and Mental Disorders: an extract from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon 9 October 2015 Frantz Fanon 's The Wretched of the Earth (1961) was a seminal publication, analysing the psychological and psychiatric effects of colonialism upon the colonised subject. ![]()
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