What Frantz Fanon thinks about optimism
French psychiatrist and political philosopher from Martinique (1925 to 1961), a founding thinker of postcolonial studies, best known for The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks.
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2 dated positions, c. 1961, in their own words. Our reading of what Frantz Fanon has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsDecolonization is truly the creation of new men.
↗The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox)books.google.com All 21 from this book
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Their wordsBut what we want is to walk in the company of man, every man, night and day, for all times.
↗The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox)books.google.com All 21 from this book