Frantz Fanon
Psychiatrist and anticolonial thinker from Martinique (1925 to 1961).
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- Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist and political philosopher from Martinique, born in 1925.
- Fanon's work is central to post-colonial studies and critical theory.
- Fanon headed a service at the Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital in Algeria and joined the Algerian National Liberation Front.
- Fanon died in 1961 while being treated for leukemia, shortly after The Wretched of the Earth was published.
Key facts
- Born
- 20 July 1925, Fort-de-France, Martinique1
- Died
- 6 December 1961, Bethesda, Maryland1
- Education
- Medicine and psychiatry, University of Lyon; qualified as a psychiatrist in 19511
- Work
- Chef de service, Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital, Algeria, 1953 to January 19571
- Politics
- Joined the FLN in the Algerian War; ambassador to Ghana for the Provisional Algerian Government1
- Books
- Black Skin, White Masks (1952); The Wretched of the Earth (1961); Toward the African Revolution (posthumous)1
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