Name: dying colonialism
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Author: Frantz Fanon
ISBN: 9780802150271

Type

Physical Book

Author

Frantz Fanon

Translated by

Haakon Chevalier

Publisher

Grove Press

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN

0802150276

ISBN13

9780802150271

Synopsis "dying colonialism"

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world. A Dying Colonialism is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in order to destroy those oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression. This is a strong, lucid, and militant book; to read it is to understand why Fanon says that for the colonized, "having a gun is the only chance you still have of giving a meaning to your death."

Frantz Fanon

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Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique. He studied medicine in France, becoming the director of the psychiatric hospital in Blida-Joinville (Algeria) in 1953 where he closely collaborated with the Algerian National Liberation Front. Expelled from Algeria in 1957, he settled in Tunisia to work with the Provisional Government of the Algerian Revolution, being appointed ambassador to Ghana in 1960. Among his books are L'an V de la révolution algérienne (1959), Les damnés de la terre (1961) and Pour la révolution africaine (1964).

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