Fanon forces his readers to see the Algerian revolution-and by analogy other contemporary revolutions-from the viewpoint of the rebels." -Conor Cruise O'Brien, Nation " The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion." -Emile Capouya, Saturday Review, Praise for The Wretched of the Earth "Certainly, writers of the sixties inspired by The Wretched of the Earth -the African novelists Nadine Gordimer, Ayi Kwei Armah, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the Caribbean poet Édouard Glissant, the Guyanese critic Walter Rodney-saw in the book not an incitement to kill white people but a chillingly acute diagnosis of the post-colonial condition: how the West would seek to maintain the iniquitous international order that had made it rich and powerful, and how new ruling classes in post-colonial nations would fail to devise a viable system of their own. "The writing of Malcolm X or Eldridge Cleaver or Amiri Baraka or the Black Panther leaders reveals how profoundly they have been moved by the thoughts of Frantz Fanon." - Boston Globe "Have the courage to read this book." -Jean-Paul Sartre "This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism." -Angela Davis "The value of The Wretched of the Earth in its relation to direct experience, in the perspective of the Algerian revolution.
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