Frantz Fanon

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)

• Peau noire, masques blancs, Paris: Seuil, 1952; repr., Le Seuil, 2001.
  • Piel negra, máscaras blancas, Abraxas, 1973; Akal, 2009. (in Spanish)
  • Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles L. Markmann, New York: Grove Press, 1967; London: Pluto Press, 1986; new ed., Pluto Press, 2008. (in English)
  • Pele negra, máscaras brancas, EdUFBA, 2008. (in Portuguese)

• L’An V de la Révolution Algérienne, 1959.
  • A Dying Colonialism, Grove Press, 1965. (in 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. (in English)
  • Prezreni na svijetu, Svjetlost, 1973. (in Serbo-Croatian)
  • Los condenados de la tierra, Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2007. (in Spanish)
  • Yeryüzünün Lanetlileri, trans. Şen Süer, Versus Kitap, 2007. (in 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. (in 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.

Links

• http://www.frantzfanoninternational.org
• http://frantzfanonfoundation-fondationfrantzfanon.com
• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/201572/Frantz-Fanon
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon
• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon