
Postmodern
Frantz Fanon
1925 – 1961
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925–1961)
- Martinique
- Caribbean
- Postcolonial Theory
- decoloniality
- Literary Theory
About
Frantz Omar Fanon was a French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique. His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory. As well as being an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical and Pan-Africanist, concerned with the psychopathology of colonization and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.
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