A Dying Colonialism - (Fanon, Frantz) by Frantz Fanon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as primitive, in order to destroy those same oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution.</b></p> <p></p> <p>Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as <i>The Wretched of the Earth</i> and <i>Black Skin, White Masks</i>. He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world.</p> <p></p> <p><i>A Dying Colonialism</i> is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as primitive, in order to destroy those oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression. This is a strong, lucid, and militant book; to read it is to understand why Fanon says that for the colonized, having a gun is the only chance you still have of giving a meaning to your death.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><b>Praise for <i>A Dying Colonialism</i></p> <p></p> <p>The writing of Malcolm X or Eldridge Cleaver or Amiri Baraka or the Black Panther leaders reveals how profoundly they have been moved by the thoughts of Frantz Fanon. -<i>The Boston Globe</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Frantz Fanon</b> was born in Martinique in 1925 and studied medicine in France, specializing in psychiatry. He was sent to a hospital in Algeria, where his sympathies turned toward the Algerian Nationalist Movement, which he later joined. He is considered this century's most important theorist of the African struggle for independence.</p>
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