The doctor and author Frantz Fanon was only 36 years old. In this short life he fought as a soldier against the Wehrmacht, practiced as a psychiatrist in France, Algeria and Tunisia, worked as a spokesman for the Algerian independence organization FLN and wrote two books that are still part of the canon of post-colonial thought: “Black Skin, White Masks” and “The Wretched of the Earth”. Today, American leftists refer to him as do French right-wing radicals, Hamas supporters as well as anti-vaccination activists in Guadeloupe. The American author Adam Shatz, editor of the London Review of Bookshas now published a major biography of Fanon, which has become one of the most discussed books of the season. Susan Neiman praised the book as a way out of the dead end of identity politics, translations into Hebrew and Arabic and several other languages are in the works. However, no inquiry has been received from Germany yet.
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