The Wretched of the Earth

About this book

Frantz Fanons seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961 it analyses the role of class race national culture and violence in the struggle for freedom. Fanon himself a psychotherapist makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. Showing how decolonization must be combined with building a national culture this passionate analysis of relations between the West and the Third World is still illuminating about the world today.