A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today\'s movements for racial liberation In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon\'s shadow looms larger than ever.
Includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.
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.
And yet they are little understood.
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.
He died in 1961, while under the care of the CIA in a Maryland hospital.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today\'s movements for racial liberation In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon\'s shadow looms larger than ever
