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.
Literature
Books by Fanon
- Peau noire, masques blancs, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1952; reprint, Le Seuil, 2001.
- Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles L. Markmann, New York: Grove Press Inc., 1967; London: Pluto Press, 1986 (in English).
- Les Damnés de la Terre, 1961; reprint, La Découverte, 2002.
- The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Constance Farrington, New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1963 (in English).
- Pour la révolution africaine. Écrits politiques, 1964; reprint, La Découverte, 2006.
- Toward the African Revolution, trans. Haakon Chavalier, Monthly Review Press, 1967; New York: Grove Press Inc., 1969 (in English).
- Œuvres, La Découverte, 2011.
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.
