About this title: This canonical text on colonialism, history, and the role of violence in each has been influential world-wide--especially in Latin America, where it was required reading for revolutionary movements, and in the United States, where it was a major text for the Black Panther Party. It is also a standard text in universities. Jean Paul Sartre's ...
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Description: Acceptable. Book shows wear to cover edges and spine. Corners bent/rounded. Cover may have folds or creases. Otherwise in good reading condition. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1968
Description: Very Good. Very good paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked, though tanned. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1973
Description: Good. Paperback, pages clean and tight, starting to yellow, white cover faded with moderate shelf wear, creased at bottom corners, stamps indise cover Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press (Black Cat), NY
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780394173276ISBN:0394173279
Description: Good. Toning, some underlining/marking. read more
Edition: Sixth Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing, Chico, CA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780802150837ISBN:0802150837
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, gently shelf worn, spine is very lightly creased, pgs. 52-54 have some margin writing in pencil and highlighting in yellow on them, overall a nice used copy! Yellow and violet wrappers with black and blue lettering. 316 historical pages! "The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon's classic work of modern revolutionary theory, concerns the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. It reflects a ... read more
Binding: Very Good
Publisher: Grove Press, NY
Date Published: 1968
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Paperback Paperback book, pages are browning, there is some underlining and small amount of writing to some pages, few pages top right hand corner is creased, no rips or tears to pages. Owner's name written to front inside cover. The handbook for the black revolution that is changing the shape of the world. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780802150837ISBN:0802150837
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. (A124_5/9)Book is in NEW condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Evergreen Black Cat Edition, 6th printing. B-149.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Grove Press Inc., New York.
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Signed by previous owner. Smooth spine, clean covers, slight edge wear. Underlining to Preface passages. First edition. Mass-market PB. 316 p. Cover graphic from photo, orange, black; titles white and green. Non-fiction set in Algeria: Recommended reading "for all those who wish to understand what it means to fight for freedom, equality and dignity, " Alex Quaison-Sackey, former President, U.N. General Assembly. It was written in anger ... read more
Edition: Fourth Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A Negro's psychoanalyst's study of the problems of racism & colonialism in the world today. Book has mild curve due to previous improper storage. Wraps have mild scuffing. Spine is lightly creased. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. Binding is tight. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"This book was eye-opening. The reciprocal damages of colonialism are made clear in the later sections of his book. The psychological damage wrought in the minds of the French soldiers and the Algerian colonial subjects is a compelling case for national liberation.
And his evolving views on violence were particularly striking to me."
"i was somewhat familiar with the historical relevance of this book when i started it, and i must confess that (at first) my preconceptions almost interfered with the reading experience itself. the wretched of the earth is perhaps best remembered for its moments of insurrection - its advocacy of violent resistance and its status as an emblem of the french-algerian war. it's certainly noteworthy for both of those reasons, but it's not limited by them at all.
in 2009, it can be easy to approach "revolutionary" writing with caution and cynicism. what surprised me about the wretched of the earth was how relevant its political insights still seem to me, today. while didactic (in the best, most necessary sense of the term), it's also broad-minded in its political vision. at times, fanon constructs his political systems with a peculiar sense of detachment (lots of reference to "african nations" rather than particular struggles, countries or movements), but this allows him to present extremely precise and surprisingly open-ended systems simultaneously. the chapter titled "on national culture" is especially good at addressing the paradoxes of colonial intellectual life. his nuanced approach to knowledge accounts for many of the contradictions of western influence, avoids easy intellectual rejections, leaves room for the often subjugated insights of the lumpen-proletariat and still arrives at something that feels like a call to arms, nearly 50 years later."
"I had had this book around for years before finally getting into it. Ironically, I started it at the Northwestern University Dental Clinic on Superior in Chicago while having a gold inlay placed. Fanon's discussion of torture seemed synchronistic at the time."
"I assigned this for a couple of classes I taught on Nationalism, Revolution & Ethnicity. It's a classic indictment of the effect colonial rule has on the minds and psychology of the colonised and a classic justification for revolutionary violence as necessary catharsis. It's a powerful book, and Fanon was a skilled writer and a trained and practicing psychologist among the 'assimilated' middle classes of French colonies. Fanon speaks for the rage of the partly-assimilated, educated colonised: left dangling between cultures, excluded from meaningful participation in government, made all-too-aware that, even with a degree from the Sorbonne and a French wife, one is still...a native. His strengths are his weaknesses, of course. Fanon does not speak for the Algerian or Senegalese peasant farmer, and his justifications of violence are far too open-ended and cut more ways than he recognises. He has the ability of all-too-many intellectuals to justify an abstract violence without an emotional understanding of what that means. Still--- a classic work for anyone who cares about issues of ethnicity, nationalism, and revolution, and a keytext for any 'post-colonial' studies."
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