The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon's landmark text,
now with a new introduction by Cornel WestFirst published in
1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a
powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon's The
Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of
race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle,
and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to
decolonization. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists,
The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil
rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black
consciousness movements around the world. Alongside Cornel West's
introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre
and Homi K. Bhabha. This sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon's most
famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism
and anti-racism as Edward Said's Orientalism and The
Autobiography of Malcolm X.
