Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Martinique-born psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer. He was the author of classic works such as Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). He was one of the most significant anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist and anti-racist thinkers of the 20th Century.

Jean Khalfa is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Trinity College Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Poetics of the Antilles (2016) and an upcoming work on Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. He is also the editor of the first complete edition of Michel Foucault's History of Madness (2006).

Robert J. C. Young, FBA, is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University, USA. He is the author of White Mythologies (1990), Colonial Desire (1995), Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (2001), The Idea of English Ethnicity (2008) and Empire, Colony, Postcolony (2015).

Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and translated several works by Jacques Rancière, including Dissensus (2015) and The Lost Thread (2016).

Plates
Frantz Fanon: Works Cited

General Introduction, by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young

Introduction
1. The demoralized Foreign Legion
2. Algeria's independence: An everyday reality
3. National independence: The only possible outcome
4. Algeria and the French crisis
5. The Algerian conflict and African anticolonialism
6. A democratic revolution
7. Once again: The reason for the precondition
8. Algerian revolutionary consciousness
9. In the Caribbean, birth of a nation?
10. The strategy of an army with its back to the wall
11. The survivors of no man's land
12. Testament of a 'man of the left'
13. Ultracolonialism's rationale
14. The western world and the fascist experience in France
15. Gaulist illusions
16. The calvary of a people
17. The rising anti-imperialist movement and the slow-wits of pacification
18. African countries and their solidary combat
19. Richard Wright's White Man, Listen!
20. At Conakry, he declares: 'Global peace goes via national independence'
21. Africa accuses the west
22. Why we use violence
23. The stooges of imperialism
24. Letter to Ali Shariati

Publishing Fanon (France and Italy, 1959-1971)
Frantz Fanon's Library and Life
Franz Fanon's Library
Key dates of Fanon's chronology

Index