Frantz Fanon | |
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Born | 20 July 1925 |
Died | 6 December 1961 Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. | (aged 36)
Alma mater | University of Lyon |
Notable work | Black Skin, White Masks; The Wretched of the Earth |
Spouse | Josie Fanon |
Region | Africana philosophy |
School | Marxism Black existentialism Critical theory Existential phenomenology |
Main interests | Decolonization and Postcolonialism, revolution, psychopathology of colonization, racism, Psychoanalysis |
Notable ideas | Double consciousness, colonial alienation, To become black, Sociogeny |
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Frantz Omar Fanon (/ˈfænən/,[1] US: /fæˈnɒ̃/;[2] French: [fʁɑ̃ts fanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961), was a French West Indian[3][4][5] psychiatrist and political philosopher. Fanon was from the French colony of Martinique, which is now a a French department. His writing remains significant in the studies of postcolonialism, critical theory and Marxism.[6]