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New York. 1972. January 1973. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/A Small Tear At The Rear Top. 039446205x. 300 pages. hardcover. keywords: Fanon Politics Black Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Irene L. Gendzier has written a brilliant and original study of Frantz Fanon which should stand as definitive for many years to come. Her book is a critical examination of the life and ideas of the Martiniquean psychiatrist who chose to become Algerian and who was a committed partisan of the Algerian Revolution (1954-1962). Professor Gendzier deals first with Fanon's biographical and intellectual roots in Martinique and in France. She then goes on to consider his psychiatric work and his political legacy. Fanon's psychiatric work is little known, though often disparagingly regarded because of his overt political stand and his belief that psychoanalysis cannot be divorced from politics. Articles published before and during his North African period are included in this book in order to offer readers an opportunity to study this aspect of his work. It is Fanon's political legacy, however, that has been given the closest attention, although it is the thesis of this author that Fanon's politics and his commitment to it must be understood in the context of the man's entire life-his inner tensions, his unresolved conflicts, and his conscious political positions. The autobiographical element aside, Fanon concerned himself with the most important and difficult aspects of developing nations that seek to include the masses in the independence they have achieved. Hence, his attention to the role of the masses and the party, to the question of organization of political life, and to the critical role of the bourgeoisie in the new states-all problems which exist in the Third World. inventory #23979.
