The Rebel's Clinic [electronic resource] : : The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Adam Shatz2024
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Longlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize 2024
Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man,
he volunteered to fight in de Gaulle's army for the liberation of France, and
trained to become a doctor and psychiatrist. His experiences as a Black man
under French colonial rule had a profound effect on him. In 1952, he wrote Black
Skin, White Masks , a vital analysis of the effects of racism on the human
psyche.
He was later re-assigned to a hospital in French Algeria. It was here that he
became involved in the rebellion of the National Liberation Front (FLN), who
fought to break free from colonial power. Fanon's work for the FLN as a
propagandist and psychiatrist became highly contentious. His final work, The
Wretched of the Earth , was published in 1961 just before he died at the age of
36. It has proved to be one of the most controversial yet influential books of
our time.
The Rebel's Clinic is a searing biography of the short and harro...
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Author:
Adam Shatz, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Apollo, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (464 pages)
Audience:
General / adult
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781035900022
Language:
English
BRN:
524735
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