Black skin, white masks [electronic resource] / Frantz Fanon.

By:

Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961

Contributor(s):

Askews & Holts

Language: English Original language: French Series: Get politicalPublication details: London : Pluto, 2008.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:

9781849644532 (ebook) :

Uniform titles:

Peau noire, masques blancs. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

LOC classification:

GN645

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Summary: Frantz Fanon's seminal text was immediately acclaimed as a classic of black liberationalist writing. Fanon's descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy and dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world, 'the crippled colonial mentalities of the oppressed', are as salient and as compelling as ever. The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon . or too late.*BR**BR*First published in English in 1968, Frantz Fanon's seminal text was immediately acclaimed as a classic of black liberationalist writing. Fanon's descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy and dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world are as salient and as compelling as ever. Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. His writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation in our troubled times.

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Originally published: New York: Grove, 1967; London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968.

Frantz Fanon's seminal text was immediately acclaimed as a classic of black liberationalist writing. Fanon's descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy and dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world, 'the crippled colonial mentalities of the oppressed', are as salient and as compelling as ever. The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon . or too late.*BR**BR*First published in English in 1968, Frantz Fanon's seminal text was immediately acclaimed as a classic of black liberationalist writing. Fanon's descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy and dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world are as salient and as compelling as ever. Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. His writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation in our troubled times.

Translated from the French.

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