Frantz Fanon
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Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Martinique-born Afro-French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and an existentialist humanist concerning the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.
Works
(in French unless noted otherwise)
- Peau noire, masques blancs, Paris: Seuil, 1952; repr., Le Seuil, 2001.
- Piel negra, máscaras blancas, Abraxas, 1973; Akal, 2009. (Spanish)
- Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles L. Markmann, New York: Grove Press, 1967; London: Pluto Press, 1986; new ed., Pluto Press, 2008. (English)
- Pele negra, máscaras brancas, EdUFBA, 2008. (Portuguese)
- L’An V de la Révolution Algérienne, 1959.
- A Dying Colonialism, Grove Press, 1965. (English)
- Les damnés de la terre, F. Maspero, 1961; repr., La Découverte, 2002.
- The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Richard Philcox, Grove Press, 1963; 2004. (English)
- Prezreni na svijetu, Svjetlost, 1973. (Serbo-Croatian)
- Los condenados de la tierra, Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2007. (Spanish)
- Yeryüzünün Lanetlileri, trans. Şen Süer, Versus Kitap, 2007. (Turkish)
- Pour la révolution africaine. Écrits politiques, 1964; repr., La Découverte, 2006.
- Toward the African Revolution, trans. Haakon Chavalier, Monthly Review Press, 1967; New York: Grove Press, 1969. (English)
- Œuvres, La Découverte, 2011.
Literature
- Lewis R. Gordon, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Renee T. White (eds), Fanon: A Critical Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996
- David Macey, Frantz Fanon: A Biography, New York: Picador Press, 2000.
- Theory, Culture & Society 27(7): "Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth Fifty Years On", 2010, ARG.
- South Atlantic Quarterly 112(1): "Fanon: Imperative of the Now", ed. Grant Farred, Winter 2013. [1]
- Florence Aubenas, "Dans l’ombre de Frantz Fanon, penseur majeur du postcolonialisme", Le Monde, 12 Sep 2017. (French)
- "In the Shadow of Frantz Fanon: A profile of Marie-Jeanne Manuellan, assistant to Frantz Fanon from 1958 to 1961", trans. David Broder, Verso Blog, 21 Nov 2017.
