The Psychiatric Writings from Alienation and Freedom

About Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Martinique-born psychiatrist philosopher revolutionary and writer. He was the author of classic works such as Black Skin White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). He was one of the most significant anti-colonialist anti-imperialist and anti-racist thinkers of the 20th Century. Jean Khalfa is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Trinity College Cambridge UK. He is the author of Poetics of the Antilles (2016) and an upcoming work on Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. He is also the editor of the first complete edition of Michel Foucault's History of Madness (2006). Robert J. C. Young FBA is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University USA. He is the author of White Mythologies (1990) Colonial Desire (1995) Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (2001) The Idea of English Ethnicity (2008) and Empire Colony Postcolony (2015). Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and translated several works by Jacques Rancière including Dissensus (2015) and The Lost Thread (2016).