A review by jiddle
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

5.0

Probably one of my most important reads as of late. Especially relevant within the context of the current stage of the Israel-Palestine conflict. What will stay most with me from this book, besides Fanon's excellent and poetic command of rhetoric which has been excellently translated by Richard Philcox, are the bookend chapters - "On Violence", where Fanon argues the necessity of violence I nthe fight for decolonization without necessarily condoning it, and "Colonial War and Mental Disorders" where he details several individual cases that delineate the personal toll of colonialism on Algeria and its citizens.