The Routledge Guidebook to Fanon's The Wretched of The Earth

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-415-73185-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

The Routledge Guidebook to Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth offers an accessible, step-by step guide to Fanon’s original text, providing a clear and engaging account account of the theoretical and historical background that lead to its writing. It unites all elements of the work to produce a precise explanation of this important book, which presents the historicak impact of its publication, traces its ongoing influence and explains the interest it continues to elicit today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Khalfa, Jean

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Fanon’s intellectual formation

- Decolonisation and the historical circumstances of the Wretched of the Earth

- The Wretched of the Earth 1: Violence

- The Wretched of the Earth 2 and 3: Process and pitfalls of decolonisation

- The Wretched of the Earth 4: National Culture and liberation struggles

- The Wretched of the Earth 5: Psychopathologies of colonial wars

- Influence

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Khalfa is Fellow and Senior Lecturer in French Studies and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages at Trinity College, Cambridge. He specialises in history of philosophy, modern literature (in particular contemporary poetry and writing in French from North Africa and the Caribbean), aesthetics and anthropology. He is currently working on a book on the collected writings of Frantz Fanon.