Frantz Fanon

Peter Childs (Newman University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.2: Francophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Maeve McCusker (Queen's University Belfast), David Murphy (University of Strathclyde)

Dates

Born 20 Jul 1925
Died 6 Dec 1961
Activity 1945-1961

Places

Born in Martinique
Active in Algeria; France; United States

Cultural Identities

Caribbean/ Antillean French

Activities

Primary

Cultural Theorist/ Critic

Resources

The work of the psychiatrist and Algerian National Liberation Front activist Frantz Fanon, born in Martinique in 1925, brings together Marxism, psychoanalysis, philosophy and sociological critique in a refusal of colonial stereotypes, a socio-economic analysis of the conditions of colonialism, and an articulation of the psychological experience of the colonized. Born under French colonialism in the Caribbean and taught at high school by the liberation poet Aimé Césaire, Fanon enlisted to fight for the French in the Second World War and later studied medicine in France, qualifying as a psychiatrist in 1951. In 1953, he was assigned to an Algerian hospital, where he worked during the early years of the war of independence (1954 - 1961) a…

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Citation: Childs, Peter. "Frantz Fanon". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 March 2008 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1477, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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