The wretched of the Earth

[Bretty123]

Has anyone read this book?

I've started reading it after finishing some others and so far I'm enjoying it however it is very stylistic.

I see alot of similarities between this and the work of Edward Said.

Thoughts? Comments?

[RevolutionaryMarxist]

Never heard of it - any links to free online texts?

[Inviction]

Ah yes, Frantz Fanon. Comes from the first line of L'Internationale.

[blake 3:17]

It's a very important book. Fanon was dealing with the realities of anti-colonial revolution and embracing its strengths and weaknesses.

His attitudes and approaches to violence are probably the most important to those of us engaged in liberation movements.

Do you have particular questions? Looking for debate?

Like many books in the canon of emancipatory literature, it refers to quite specific issues, and deals with highly contradictory situations.

Have you seen Isaac Julian's film on Fanon?

[Bretty123]

No I've just started reading it. Anything you can tell me about the ideas or the author would be appreciated.. or anything important you can put forward.

[Hiero]

It is a really good. I like his run down of different parties and classes involved in the national liberation. His work on the differences between rural colonised people, urban colonised people an fringe dwellers is really good.

Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, revolutionary and good friend of Sartre. He did alot of his work in Algeria and was a member of the National Liberation Front of Algeria during the Algerian war of liberation.