“Isaac Julien and Mark Nash’s Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996) is a film portrait of the revolutionary, writer and psychiatrist, whose classic publications The Wretched of the Earth (1961) and Black Skin White Mask (1952) remain the bibles of decolonisation. One of the leading black intellectuals of the twentieth century, Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) trained in psychiatry in France. He explored the ‘black is beautiful’ Negritude movement and entered into a dialogue with Jean-Paul Sartre about the experience of being black. He wrote his first major work, Black Skin White Masks as his graduate psychiatry thesis, focusing on the psychological interdependence of the colonised and colonisers, with particular reference to the French colonies. ...”
2017 October: The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
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