{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/7a3c5644-595b-4535-89cb-4df503953241/992747ac-62f5-4984-8e59-ca2be788ad9f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Fanon on Colonialism","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195407ecb03c875f76170fd/6195408d054fb40012de7d1b.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist who both experienced and analysed the impact of colonial violence.&nbsp;In The Wretched of the Earth (1961) he developed an account of politics that sought to channel violent resistance to colonialism as a force for change.&nbsp;It is a deliberately shocking book.&nbsp;David explores what Fanon’s argument says about the possibility of moving beyond the power of the modern state.</p><p><br></p><p>Free online version of the text:</p><ul><li><a href=\"http://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Frantz-Fanon-The-Wretched-of-the-Earth-1965.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Frantz-Fanon-The-Wretched-of-the-Earth-1965.pdf</a></li></ul><p>Recommended version to purchase:&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/573/57385/the-wretched-of-the-earth/9780141186542.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/573/57385/the-wretched-of-the-earth/9780141186542.html</a></li></ul><p>Going Deeper:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n15/megan-vaughan/breath-of-unreason\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Vaughan for the LRB on Fanon and psychiatry in North Africa</a></li><li><a href=\"https://monoskop.org/images/0/05/Fanon_Frantz_Toward_the_African_Revolution_1967.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Frantz Fanon, Toward the African revolution: political essays</a></li><li><a href=\"https://groveatlantic.com/book/black-skin-white-masks/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Frantz Fanon, <em>Black skin, white masks</em> (New York, NY: Grove Press, 2008).</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vgoH5IPK-c\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">(Video) Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers [film] (1966)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/1961/preface.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘Preface’, in Frantz Fanon, <em>The wretched of the earth</em> (Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 2001)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frantz-Fanon-Portrait-Alice-Cherki/dp/080147308X\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Cherki, <em>Frantz Fanon: a portrait,</em> Nadia Benabid, trans. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006).</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Talking Politics"}