Frantz Fanon

ISBN: 9781848857247 出版年：2015 页码：299 Leo Zeilig Bloomsbury Publishing

Frantz Fanon is best known as one of the leading twentieth-century political thinkers and activists against colonialism and imperialism and as the author of the iconic book "Wretched of the Earth". Leo Zeilig here details the life of Fanon - from his upbringing in Martinique to his wartime experiences and work in Europe and North Africa - and frames his ideas and activism within the greater context of his career as a practising psychiatrist and his politically tumultuous surroundings. Tthe period of the Algerian War of Independence, national liberation and what Fanon described 'the curse of independence'. Highlighting Fanonmost influential theorist of third-world liberation, this book is an essential work for students, academics and general readers.