The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon First US Edition, New York 1963 Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon First US Edition, Grove Press, Inc. New York 1963, translated from the original French by Constance Farrington with a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre Gray cloth with silver spine lettering, pp. 1-6, 7-255, [1]; G+ book with significant annotations penned throughout, a bookplate over a signature, and prev. owner's name struck through on ffep, light rubbing to extremities in a VG jacket with small chips to spine ends and fore-edge corners, small tears and creasing to edges In perhaps the best-known anti-colonial work, Fanon justifies and explains the necessity and inevitability of national revolution and its accompanying violence as a natural reflection of the violence inflicted by colonial oppression. Citing examples from around the globe but particularly drawing from the ongoing French-Algerian war, Fanon provides a handbook on how to conduct a successful revolution fully shrugging off the yoke of colonial oppression while avoiding the common pitfalls that lead to continued dependence upon and exploitation from the colonial power, which Sartre dubbed neocolonialism a few years earlier. Fanon states that through this struggle for independence the people will reestablish a consciousness, culture, dignity, and humanity. Fanon challenges a newly liberated third world to imagine and build a better future free from the violence, exploitation, and hypocrisy that has defined Western civilization. Fanon was born in Martinique and studied medicine and psychiatry in France. He was stationed at a hospital in Algeria during the war and found his sympathies with the rebels. He joined the Algerian revolution and became one of its foremost spokesmen.