Frantz Fanon

Fraser, Robert (2005). Frantz Fanon. In: Poddar, Prem and Johnson, David eds. A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 152–154.

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Abstract

A biographical account of this Martinique-born psychiatrist, writer and revolutionary gadfly (1925-61), and an estimate both of his influence (especially on the Algerian War of Liberation) and of his shortcomings.

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• Item ORO ID
• 7339
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 0-7486-1855-4, 978-0-7486-1855-2
• Keywords
• Fanon; psychiatry; Existentialism; Martinique; Algeria; Sartre
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group (PGL)
• Depositing User
• Robert Fraser