Binding: Hardcover
Description: One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024 Named a best book of 2024 so far by The New Yorker | Vulture | Foreign Affairs One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 Longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non - Fiction " Nimble and engrossing An exemplary work of public intellectualism." - Becca Rothfeld The Washington Post" Undoubtedly the best biography of Fanon A remarkable achievement." - Robert J. C. Young Los Angeles Review of Books A revelatory biography of the writer - activist who inspired today's movements for social and racial justice. In the era of Black Lives Matter Frantz Fanon's shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era and his writings about race revolution and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world. In this searching biography Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanon's stunning journey which has all the twists of a Cold War - era thriller. Fanon left his modest home in Martinique to fight in the French Army during World War II; when the war was over he fell under the influence of Existentialism while studying medicine in Lyon and trying to make sense of his experiences as a Black man in a white city. Fanon went on to practice a novel psychiatry of "dis - alienation" in rural France and Algeria and then join the Algerian independence struggle where he became a spokesman diplomat and clandestine strategist. He died in 1961, while under the care of the CI a in a Maryland hospital. Today Fanon's Black Skin White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth have become canonical texts of the Black and global radical imagination comparable to James Baldwin's essays in their influence. And yet they are little understood. In The Rebel's Clinic Shatz offers a dramatic reconstruction of Fanon's extraordinary life - and a guide to the books that underlie today's most vital efforts to challenge white supremacy and racial capitalism. Includes 8 pages of black - and - white photographs
Title: The Rebel's Clinic The Revolutionary Lives Of Frantz Fanon
Author(s): Shatz Adam
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374176426
Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/23/2024
Category: Autobiography: General