121 Conversations [[Image:Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth.jpg|right|200px]] '''Frantz Fanon''' ([[July 20]], [[1925]] – [[December 6]], [[1961]]) was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the [[20th century]] on the issue of [[Decolonization|decolonization]] and the [[psychopathology]] of [[Colonization|colonization]]. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements throughout the world for more than four decades.
==Life==
Frantz Fanon was born on July 20, 1925, in Fort-de-France on the Caribbean island of Martinique and died on December 6, 1961, in Washington, D.C. He is best known for his work in fighting against colonization.
Fanon was the son of a native Martiniquan father (the descendant of slaves and a member of the island's middle-class community), and a French (Alsace) mother (herself the daughter of a mixed marriage). Between 1939 and 1943 he studied at the Lycée Schoelcher, where he was taught by Aimé César, a poet who helped destroy the image...
==References in the Arts==
===Music===
*[[Rage Against the Machine]] references Fanon, "grip tha cannon like Fanon and pass tha shell to my classmate" in a track entitled "Year of tha Boomerang" on their [[1996]] release ''[[Evil Empire (album)|Evil Empire]]''. The Wretched of the Earth appears on the inside of the album cover.
*[[Third Sight]] references Fanon in a track entitled "Will I Get Shot by a Dope Fiend?" on their [[2006]] release ''[[Symbionese Liberation Album]]''.
===Contemporary Art===
*[[Jimmie Durham]], an American Indian conceptual artist, references Fanon in a piece entitled "Often Durham Employs..." (1998), with this quote from Fanon- "The zone where the natives live is not complementary to the zone inhabited by the settlers."
==Bibliography==
===Fanon's writings===
*''[[Black Skin, White Masks]]'', transl. Charles Lam Markmann (1967: New York, [[Grove Press]])
*''[[A Dying Colonialism]]''
*''[[Toward the African Revolution]]''
*''[[The Wretched of the Earth]]'', transl. Constance Farrington (1963: New York, Grove Weidenfeld)
*''[[Toward the African Revolution]]'', transl. Haakon Chavalier (1969: New York, Grove Press)
*[http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/fanon.html "Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom" A Speech by Frantz Fanon included in The Wretched of the Earth]
===Secondary literature===*Laura Chrisman & Patrick Williams ''Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader'' (1994: New York, Columbia University Press)*[[Lewis R. Gordon]], ''Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences'' (1995: New York, Routlege)*[[Lewis Gordon|Lewis R. Gordon]], T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, & Renee T. White [edd] ''Fanon: A Critical Reader'' (1996: Oxford, Blackwell)*Hussein M. Adam “Fanon as a Democratic Theorist” in Nigel C. Gibson [ed.] ''Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialougue'' (1999: Amherst, New York, Humanity Books)*Samuel Oluoch Imbo ''An Introduction to African Philosophy'' (1998: Oxford, Rowman & Littlefield) ISBN 0-8476-8840-2*Macey, David ''Frantz Fanon: A Biography'' (2000: New York, NY, Picador Press) ISBN 0-312-27550-1*Ato Sekyi-otu ''Fanon's Dialectic of Experience'' (1996: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press)*Tsenay Serequeberhan ''The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy'' (1994: London, Routledge) ISBN 0-415-90802-7*Christian Filostrat Interviews Frantz Fanon's Wife Josie, [[November 16]] [[1978]], Howard University’s African-American Center.*Olúfémi Táíwò “Fanon” in [[Robert L. Arrington]] [ed.] ''A Companion to the Philosophers'' (2001: Oxford, Blackwell) ISBN 0-631-22967-1*Alice Cherki, "Frantz Fanon.Portrait" (2000: Paris, Seuil)*Nigel C. Gibson ''Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination'' (2003: Oxford, Polity Press)*Giovanni Pirelli, "Frantz Fanon: Opere scelte" (1976: Milan, erre emme) ==See also==*[[Amílcar Cabral]]*[[Race theory]] [[Category:1925 births|Fanon, Frantz]][[Category:1961 deaths|Fanon, Frantz]][[Category:Algerian people|Fanon, Frantz]][[Category:Marxists|Fanon, Frantz]][[Category:Post-colonial theory|Fanon, Frantz]][[Category:Algerian writers|Fanon, Frantz]][[Category:Croix de guerre recipients|Fanon, Frantz]][[Category:French people|Fanon, FrantzMarxism]]
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