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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.

Literature

Books by Fanon

  • Peau noire, masques blancs, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1952; repint, Le Seuil, 2001.
    • Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles L. Markmann, Grove Press Inc., 1967; London: Pluto Press, 1986 (in English).

Books on Fanon

  • 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.

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