The Wretched of the Earth
Grove/Atlantic · Print & ebook · October 29, 2021
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- Genres
- Colonialism & Its Aftermath, Race & Discrimination, Global Black Studies
- Published
- Grove/Atlantic, October 29, 2021
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“This century’s most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism.”—Angela Davis 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 masterful and timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization.
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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.
Why It Lands
Come here for
- postcolonial argument with psychological force
- cultural touchstone in a compact frame
Expect
- politics braided with psychology
- serious reading, not easy comfort
Where it sits
| Colonialism & Its Aftermath | 97% |
|---|---|
| Race & Discrimination | 61% |
| Global Black Studies | 42% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Political History & Ideas
- Colonialism & Its Aftermath
- Global Black Studies
- Authors
- Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox, Jean-Paul Sartre
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic
- Published
- October 29, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Political History & Ideas