Paperback. Pub Date :2001-12-06 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books Frantz Fanons seminal work on the trauma of colonization. The Wretched of the Earth made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from the French by Constance Farrington. with an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre.Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961. Frantz Fanons classic text has provided inspiration for anti -colonial movements ever since. analysing the role of class. race. national culture and violence in the struggle for freedom. With power and anger. Fanon makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. It was Fanon. himself a psychotherapist. who exposed the connection between colonial war and mental di...