French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925–1961)
Frantz Fanon
Born
20 July 1925 (1925-07-20)
Fort-de-France, Martinique, French West Indies
Died
6 December 1961(1961-12-06) (aged 36)
Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Alma mater
University of Lyon
Notable work
Black Skin, White Masks, The Wretched of the Earth
Spouse
Josie Fanon
Region
Africana philosophy
School
Marxism Black existentialism Critical theory Existential phenomenology
Main interests
Decolonization and Postcolonialism, revolution, psychopathology of colonization, racism, Psychoanalysis
Notable ideas
Double consciousness, colonial alienation, To become black, Sociogeny
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Frantz Omar Fanon (/ˈfænən/,[2]US: /fæˈnɒ̃/;[3]French:[fʁɑ̃tsfanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Francophone Afro-Caribbean[4][5][6] psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism.[7] As well as being an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, Pan-Africanist, and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization[8] and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.[9][10][11]
In the course of his work as a physician and psychiatrist, Fanon supported the Algerian War of independence from France and was a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. Fanon has been described as "the most influential anticolonial thinker of his time".[12] For more than five decades, the life and works of Fanon have inspired national liberation movements and other freedom and political movements in Palestine, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and the United States.[13][14][15] He formulated a model for community psychology, believing that many mental health patients would do better if they were integrated into their family and community instead of being treated with institutionalized care. He also helped found the field of institutional psychotherapy while working at Saint-Alban under Francois Tosquelles and Jean Oury.[16]
^Hudis, Peter. Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades, p. 21-22. United Kingdom, Pluto Press, 2015.
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^"Frantz Fanon". The American Heritage Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2020.
^David Macey, Frantz Fanon: A Biography (2000), New York: Picador Press.
^Nigel Gibson, Fanonian Practices in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, 2011.
^Duran, Eduardo-1 Bonnie-2 (1996). Native American Postcolonial Psychology. Library of Congress: State University of New York Press. p. 186. ISBN 0-7914-2354-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
influences on the postcolonial concept of colonial mentality include FrantzFanon's works on the fracturing of the colonial psyche through Western cultural...
Aimé Césaire 1952. Black Skin, White Masks, by FrantzFanon 1961. The Wretched of the Earth, by FrantzFanon 1965. The Colonizer and the Colonized, by Albert...
Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book by the philosopher FrantzFanon, in which the author provides a psychoanalysis of the dehumanizing effects...
of the phrase. The second is Martinican anticolonialist intellectual FrantzFanon who used another French equivalent of the phrase in his 1960 address...
resistance in modernity.[citation needed] Very similarly to Du Bois, FrantzFanon touched upon the term of double consciousness in his life. In his first...
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Africaine) is a collection of essays written by FrantzFanon, which was published in 1964, after Fanon's death. The essays in the book were written from...
United Nations, and the Organisation of African Unity. While in France, FrantzFanon wrote his first book, Black Skin, White Masks, an analysis of the impact...
mini-series Dinotopia. His other film credits include Captives (1994), FrantzFanon: Black Skin White Mask (a documentary directed by Isaac Julien in which...
ethos of racial separatism. Influenced by the Martinican philosopher FrantzFanon and the African-American Black Power movement, Biko and his compatriots...
is specifically known for his contribution to the Créolité movement. FrantzFanon, a prominent critic of colonialism and racism, was also from Martinique...
immutable, or static. The concept was developed by FrantzFanon in his 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks. Fanon was a Martinican writer, revolutionary, and psychoanalyst...
that have informed the approach of postcolonialism include Edward Said, FrantzFanon, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, amongst many others. Postcolonial IR's...
capture the agency of the "masses", as FrantzFanon referred to them, and their role in this process. Fanon's ideas regarding the agency involved in shaping...
from Harvard University. His principal influences were Antonio Gramsci, FrantzFanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor W. Adorno. In 1963, Said...
In 1949, the novel was awarded the Grandprix littéraire des Antilles. FrantzFanon strongly criticized the novel's treatment of black women's desire for...
segments of the population, but here too, violent coercion was widely used. FrantzFanon, a psychiatrist from Martinique who became the FLN's leading political...
utilize it. The word Lumpenproletariat, popularized in the West by FrantzFanon's The Wretched of the Earth in the 1960s, has been adopted as a sociological...
Algeria if they fight with force. Another important voice was the one of FrantzFanon, who headed the Algerian delegation to the conference. He argued that...
translating process.: 127 The work was strongly influenced by Karl Marx and FrantzFanon.: 30 As one critic, John D. Holst, describes it: In Pedagogy of the...
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