Master Cadre English Notes

FRANTZ FANON (1925-1961)
Martinique born Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, philosopher
and postcolonial critic
👉Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
o Written in response to Leopold Sedar Senghor’s negritude anthology, Black Orpheus
o Studies the psychology of the racism and dehumanization

👉Toward the African Revolution (1964) concerned with African revolution and Algerian independence movement

👉The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
o Preface by the existentialist philosopher, Jean Paul Sartre
o Psychological analysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization