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Fanon was born in the Caribbean island of Martinique, then a French colony and now a French département. He was born into a middle class black family and received a typical assimilationist education. At the age of 18, Fanon enlisted in the French army and saw active duty in France. In 1944 he was wounded in battle and received the Croix de Guerre medal.
In 1945, after recovering from his wounds Fanon returned home to Martinique, a decorated war veteran. Already disillusioned with colonialism and the black man's place in it, Fanon stayed long enough to complete his baccalaureate and then returned to France where he took up the study of medicine. In 1953 he obtained his qualification as a psychiatristPsychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). The term alienist is an old term for a psychiatrist, and the term shrink (from "head shrinker") is a (sometimes offensive) slang term for a psy and travelled to AlgeriaAlgeria is a country in northern Africa with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea along the north and bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco in the west (the Moroccan, then a French colonyFrench rule in Algeria, 1830 1962 Most of France's actions in Algeria, not least the invasion of Algiers, were propelled by contradictory impulses. In the period between Napoleon's downfall in 1815 and the revolution of 1830, the restored French monarchy, to take up a position at the Blida-Joinville hospitalA hospital today is a centre for professional health care provided by physicians and nurses. During the Middle Ages it could serve other functions, such as almshouse for the poor, or hostel for pilgrims. The name comes from Latin hospes (host), which is a.
The previous year, Fanon had published one of his seminal works Black Skin, White Masks , an analysis of the impact of colonial subjugation on the black psyche. By now Fanon had made a clean break with his French assimilationist upbringing and education. Once in Algeria, Fanon threw in his lot with the FLN rebels, who were fighting to liberate AlgeriaThe Algerian War of Independence ( 1954 62) was a period of guerrilla strikes, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians on both sides, and riots between the French army and colonists in Algeria and the FLN ((Front de Liberation Nationale) and other pr from French colonial rule. It was during this time that Fanon produced his greatest works, A Dying Colonialism and perhaps the most important work on decolonization yet written, The Wretched of the EarthThe Wretched of the Earth is often viewed as one of Frantz Fanon's more controversial books, if not his most controversial, since it was written during and regarding the Algerian struggle for independence from colonial rule. The first chapter, "Concerning. In The Wretched of the Earth Fanon lucidly analyses the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for national liberation. In this seminal work Fanon expounded his views on the liberating role of violence for the colonised; as well as the general necessity of violence in the anti-colonial struggle. Both books firmly established Fanon in the eyes of much of the Third World as the leading anti-colonial thinker of the 20th century. In 1959Events January-February January 1 Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin. January 1 Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance January 2 CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Bac he compiled his essays on AlgeriaAlgeria is a country in northern Africa with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea along the north and bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco in the west (the Moroccan in a book called L'An Cinq: De la Révolution Algérienne (The Year Five: On the Algerian Revolution). In this book, he drew an optimistic view of a revolutionary change made in the Algerian nastional psyche due to the revolution.
Fanon objected to the négritude fashioned by many prominent African authors of the period. Sticking to a Marxist approach, he insisted that social status is conditioned by social and economic facts.
In 1961, at the age of thirty-six, Fanon was diagnosed with leukemia and he died in December of that year, while undergoing treatment in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
Fanon has been both criticized and lionized for what is perceived as his use and defense of revolutionary violence and his absolute scorn for nonviolent activism. Despite these somewhat inaccurate interpretations of his works, Fanon has had an enduring and inspiring impact on anti-colonial and liberation movements throughout the world.
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See also: List of African writers, Amílcar Cabral, Race Theory
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