![]() Piel negra, máscaras blancas: ensayos, ed.Homi Bhabha, London: Pluto Press, 1986, xxvi+231 pp new ed., forew. Charles Lam Markmann, New York: Grove Press, 1967, 232 pp repr., forew. Ángel Abad, Barcelona: Nova Terra, 1966, 328 pp. Mariagloria Sears, Milan: Marco Tropea, 1996, 204 pp. as Pelle nera, maschere bianche: il nero e l'altro, trans. Mariagloria Sears, Milan: Il saggiatore, 1965, 281 pp new ed. Francis Jeanson, Paris: Seuil, 1952, 188 pp repr., Seuil, 2001. For Fanon the rise of corruption, ethnic division, racism, and economic dependence on former colonial states resulted from the "mediocrity" of Africa’s elite leadership class.įanon’s other writings include Pour la révolution africaine: écrits politiques (1964 Toward the African Revolution: Political Essays) and L'An V de la Révolution Algérienne (1959 A Dying Colonialism), collections of essays written during his time with El Moudjahid. Fanon was naturally critical of the institutions of colonialism, but he also was an early critic of the postcolonial governments, which failed to achieve freedom from colonial influences and establish a national consciousness among the newly liberated populace. But if violence was a tool of social control, it may also, argued Fanon, be a cathartic reaction to the oppression of colonialism and a necessary tool of political engagement. ![]() He saw violence as the defining characteristic of colonialism. The publication shortly before his death of his book Les Damnés de la terre (1961 The Wretched of the Earth) established Fanon as a leading intellectual in the international decolonization movement the preface to his book was written by Jean-Paul Sartre.įanon perceived colonialism as a form of domination whose necessary goal for success was the reordering of the world of indigenous ("native") peoples. Integrating psychoanalysis, phenomenology, existentialism, and Négritude theory, Fanon articulated an expansive view of the psychosocial repercussions of colonialism on colonized people. In 1961 he received treatment for the disease in the United States, where he later died.įanon’s Peau noire, masques blancs (1952 Black Skin, White Masks) is a multidisciplinary analysis of the effect of colonialism on racial consciousness. That same year Fanon was diagnosed with leukemia. In 1960 he was appointed ambassador to Ghana by Algeria’s FLN-led provisional government. He began working with the Algerian liberation movement, the National Liberation Front (Front de Libération Nationale FLN), and in 1956 became an editor of its newspaper, El Moudjahid, published in Tunis. ![]() While treating Algerians and French soldiers, Fanon began to observe the effects of colonial violence on the human psyche. In 1953-1956 he served as head of the psychiatry department of Blida-Joinville Hospital in Algeria, which was then part of France. After attending schools in Martinique, Fanon served in the Free French Army during World War II and afterward attended school in France, completing his studies in medicine and psychiatry at the University of Lyon.
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