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Frantz Fanon

1925 - 1961

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Frantz Omar Fanon (, US: ; French: [fʁɑ̃ts fanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a French Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frantz Fanon has received more than 3,714,700 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia. Frantz Fanon is the 545th most popular writer (down from 438th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Martinique and the most popular Writer.

Frantz Fanon is most famous for his book, "The Wretched of the Earth." In it, he argues that violence is necessary for the liberation of colonized people.

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Notable Works

Damnés de la terre
1963
Peau noire, masques blancs
1952
Pour la révolution africaine
1964
A dying colonialism
1965
Les damnés de la terre
1961
Les damne s de la terre
1970
An v de la révolution algérienne
Politics and government, Social conditions, Social aspects
1959
Alienation and freedom
Mental illness, Anti-imperialist movements, Imperialism
"Alienation and Freedom collects together previously unpublished works comprising around half of his entire output - which were previously inaccessible or thought to be lost. This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more personal Fanon and one whose literary and psychiatric works, in particular, take centre stage. These writings provide new depth and complexity to our understanding of Fanon's entire oeuvre revealing more of his powerful thinking about identity, race and activism which remain remarkably prescient. Shedding new light on the work of a major 20th-century philosopher, this disruptive and moving work will shape how we look at the world." --Jacket flap.
2015
Peau Noire, Masques Blancs
Black race, Blacks, Psychology
1952
Pour la révolution africaine
Politics and government, Race relations, Ethnic relations
1900
The Fanon reader
Politics and government, Social conditions, Blacks
2006
Les damnés de la terre
Offenses against the person, France, colonies, Algeria, history
"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."--Jacket.
1961

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frantz Fanon ranks 545 out of 7,302. Before him are T. S. Eliot, Bai Juyi, Gaston Leroux, Saint Naum, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, and Eugenio Montale. After him are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Gustav Meyrink, Georg Trakl, Patrick Süskind, Mo Yan, and Robert Burns.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Frantz Fanon ranks 33. Before him are Douglas Engelbart, Angela Lansbury, Ananda Mahidol, Nílton Santos, Gabriele Amorth, and Simon van der Meer. After him are Ernst Happel, Paul Mauriat, Peter Brook, Oona O'Neill, Pierre Boulez, and Bert Hellinger. Among people deceased in 1961, Frantz Fanon ranks 16. Before him are Jules Bordet, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mohammed V of Morocco, Rafael Trujillo, Otto Loewi, and Adnan Menderes. After him are Zog I of Albania, Paul Landowski, Kurt Meyer, Luigi Einaudi, Dashiell Hammett, and Maria of Yugoslavia.

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In Martinique

Among people born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon ranks 2 out of 26. Before him are Alexandre de Beauharnais (1760). After him are Aimé Césaire (1913), Édouard Glissant (1928), Karine Jean-Pierre (1974), Gérard Janvion (1953), René Maran (1887), Patrick Chamoiseau (1953), Euzhan Palcy (1958), Wendie Renard (1990), Allen Chastanet (1960), and Joël Abati (1970).

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Among WRITERS In Martinique

Among writers born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon ranks 1. After him are Aimé Césaire (1913), Édouard Glissant (1928), René Maran (1887), and Patrick Chamoiseau (1953).

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