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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
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The Wretched of the Earth (original 1961; edition 2021)

by Frantz Fanon (Author)

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"Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth century's most important theorists of revolution, colonialism, and racial difference, and this, his masterwork, is a classic alongside Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X." "The Wretched of the Earth is an analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage of colonized peoples and the role of violence in historical change, the book also incisively attacks postindependence disenfranchisement of the masses by the elite on one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. A veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black-consciousness movements around the world. This new translation updates its language for a new generation of readers and its lessons are more vital now than ever."--Jacket.… (more)
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the chapters on national consciousness and national culture can get a bit bogged down and meander a bit too much, and his argumentation/point is not always clear. but the writing is usually inspired and incisive, and the end of the chapter on colonial disorders is absolutely groundbreaking--yet to b surpassed in the study of political consciousness ( )
  sashame | Sep 16, 2022 |
Um livro justificadamente incendiário com um arco formal interessante: o capítulo de filosofia política sobre a violência e sua necessidade no caso dos negros colonizados-racializados (existem situações em que não há ação política mediadora, não há negociação possível que não seja abrir mão do que seria justo. Fanon aborda brilhantemente essa condição); segue análises da condição nacional, incluindo a irresponsabilidade oportunista predatória das burguesias nacionais (pós)-coloniais (que podemos reconhecer na nossa), desembocando numa discussão sobre nacionalismo e uma avaliação um pouco esperançosa demais de uma ação de desalienação e que soa em momentos ingenua (mas que assim alivia um pouco o tom), para a denuncia do que haveria ainda de verniz de civilidade falsamente universal nas tentativas das metrópoles européias de dominação. Mas eis então que, e isso é genial, são inseridos capítulos de prática psicanalítica com casos escabrosos de traumas e desequilíbrios mentais advindos da guerra de libertação nacional algeriana, descrevendo o lado visceralmente podre das forças colonizadoras, pra arrematar com um discurso incitatório bonito, que pede uma atenção maior ao humano, por quem sabe um humanismo real, que quiçá poderia uma África libertada e emancipada oferecer à humanidade. Vale a pena. (já os dois prefácios e a nota do tradutor são plenamente dispensáveis). ( )
  henrique_iwao | Aug 30, 2022 |
What can I possibly say, my lover, my killer? ( )
1 vote adaorhell | Feb 28, 2022 |
This is more of a me thing than a Fanon thing. I can only read so much verso-type prose before I start nodding off. It's a great book, and I'm really glad it's out there, but it's not meant for me. ( )
  schumacherrr | Feb 21, 2022 |
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Fanon, Frantzprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Banisadr, Abu al-HasanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Farrington, ConstanceTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Philcox, RichardTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sartre, Jean-PaulPrefacesecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.
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"Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth century's most important theorists of revolution, colonialism, and racial difference, and this, his masterwork, is a classic alongside Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X." "The Wretched of the Earth is an analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage of colonized peoples and the role of violence in historical change, the book also incisively attacks postindependence disenfranchisement of the masses by the elite on one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. A veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black-consciousness movements around the world. This new translation updates its language for a new generation of readers and its lessons are more vital now than ever."--Jacket.

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