The Wretched of The Earth. By Frantz Fanon. United States of America: Grove Press, New York. 35-316 pp. paper.
The Wretched of The Earth by Frantz Fanon was first published by "Francois Maspero Editeur", Paris, France, under the title "Les damnes de la Terre", in the year of 1961. Later in 1963, "Presence Africaine" published The Wretched of The Earth. From then it published simultaneously in Canada and printed in America.
Before I proceed I would like to point the spotlight on the name of the book – The Wretched of The Earth, which represent the sad/mourning people of mother earth. Basically, Fanon has been written this book on colonialism and its socio-psychological impact on mass people. He was a Martinican psychiatrist, philosopher, and writer in his earlier life. While observing the brutality of colonial wars, a doctor became an uncompromising active revolutionary, who not only fought wars but also did influential works in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual political radical, Pan-Africanist and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization, Fanon wrote this wonderful book which can be considered as a milestone in modern sociology.
Fanon begins the book by considering the identifies of colonizer and colonized from the very first chapter of the book, "Concerning Violence". Fanon used a word in this chapter "Manichaean world" which means a world cut into white and black with no room for complexity.
The Wretched of The Earth by Frantz Fanon was first published by "Francois Maspero Editeur", Paris, France, under the title "Les damnes de la Terre", in the year of 1961. Later in 1963, "Presence Africaine" published The Wretched of The Earth. From then it published simultaneously in Canada and printed in America.
Before I proceed I would like to point the spotlight on the name of the book – The Wretched of The Earth, which represent the sad/mourning people of mother earth. Basically, Fanon has been written this book on colonialism and its socio-psychological impact on mass people. He was a Martinican psychiatrist, philosopher, and writer in his earlier life. While observing the brutality of colonial wars, a doctor became an uncompromising active revolutionary, who not only fought wars but also did influential works in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual political radical, Pan-Africanist and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization, Fanon wrote this wonderful book which can be considered as a milestone in modern sociology.
Fanon begins the book by considering the identifies of colonizer and colonized from the very first chapter of the book, "Concerning Violence". Fanon used a word in this chapter "Manichaean world" which means a world cut into white and black with no room for complexity.