![]() He is 36 years old. The Wretched of the Earth was an immediate success. (…) In 1961, the year of the coup in Algiers and the opening of the negotiations of Evian, Fanon, seriously ill with leukemia, he works feverishly on the manuscript. "Raised by the opposition to the war in Algeria, by the challenge to an already dying colonial system, recently encouraged the exaltation of the armed struggle for victory in Cuba of the Castro rebels preaching a revolutionary Third World, crowned by the preface of a Sartre then at the height of his influence and glory, the book spread like wildfire. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements. The book is also the culmination of the works of Fanon - disciple of Aimé Césaire-, an adaptation of Marxist theory to the colonial context, and a precursor of postcolonial studies. The Wretched of the Earth is a psychiatric, political, cultural and historical diagnosis of the colonization in Algeria particularly and in Africa in general, in addition to constituting a call to the Third World to undertake the decolonizing struggle, that is, to create a new man. ![]() ![]() It was published in 1961 in France accompanied by a preface by Jean Paul Sartre. ![]() The Wretched of the Earth was the last book that Frantz Fanon wrote. ![]()
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