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.

List(s) this item appears in: BA (Hons) Art and Design level 5: - Critical Studies 2

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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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