The Wretched of the Earth - by Frantz Fanon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon's landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel West</b><p>First published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon's <i>The Wretched of the Earth</i> is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, <i>The Wretched of the Earth</i> 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 <i>Orientalism</i> and <i>The Autobiography of Malcolm X</i>.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for <i>The Wretched of the Earth<br></i></b><p>"Certainly, writers of the sixties inspired by<i> </i><i>The Wretched of the Earth</i>--the African novelists Nadine Gordimer, Ayi Kwei Armah, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the Caribbean poet Édouard Glissant, the Guyanese critic Walter Rodney--saw in the book not an incitement to kill white people but a chillingly acute diagnosis of the post-colonial condition: how the West would seek to maintain the iniquitous international order that had made it rich and powerful, and how new ruling classes in post-colonial nations would fail to devise a viable system of their own. One measure of Fanon's clairvoyance--and the glacial pace of progress--is that, in its sixtieth year, <i>The Wretched of the Earth</i> remains a vital guide both to the tenacity of white supremacy in the West and to the moral and intellectual failures of the 'darker nations' . . . Sixty years after its publication, <i>The Wretched of the Earth</i> reads increasingly like a dying Black man's admission of a genuine impossibility: of moving beyond the world made by white men."--<b>Pankaj Mishra, </b><b><i>New Yorker</i></b></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."<b>--<i>Boston Globe</i></b></p><p>"Have the courage to read this book."<b>--Jean-Paul Sartre</b></p><p>"This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism."<b>--Angela Davis</b></p><p>"The value of The <i>Wretched of the Earth</i> [lies] in its relation to direct experience, in the perspective of the Algerian revolution . . . Fanon forces his readers to see the Algerian revolution--and by analogy other contemporary revolutions--from the viewpoint of the rebels."<b>--Conor Cruise O'Brien, <i>Nation</i></b></p><p>"<i>The Wretched of the Earth</i> is an explosion."<b>--Emile Capouya, <i>Saturday Review</i></b></p><p></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Frantz Fanon</b> was born in Martinique in 1925. He served in the French Army during World War II, and later studied medicine and psychiatry in France, where he published his first book, <i>Black Skin, White Masks</i> in 1952. He joined the Algerian Nationalist Movement in the mid-1950s, and published <i>The Wretched of the Earth</i> shortly before dying of leukemia in December 1961.
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