The Rebels Clinic The Revolutionary Lives Of Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz by Adam Shatz 9780374720001, 0374720002 instant download after payment.

"Nimble & engrossing. . . [An] exemplary work of public intellectualism." —Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post

A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today's movements for social & racial justice

In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon's shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, & his writings about race, revolution, & the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world. In this searching biography, Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanon's stunning journey, which has all the twists of a Cold War-era thriller. Fanon left his modest home in Martinique to fight in the French Army during World War II; when the war was over, he fell under the influence of Existentialism while studying medicine in Lyon & trying to make sense... of his experiences as a Black man in a white city. Fanon went on to practice a novel psychiatry of “dis-alienation” in rural France & Algeria, & then join the Algerian independence struggle, where he became a spokesman, diplomat, & clandestine strategist. He died in 1961, while under the care of the CIA in a Maryland hospital.

Today, Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks & The Wretched of the Earth have become canonical texts of the Black & global radical imagination, comparable to James Baldwin’s essays in their influence. And yet they are little understood. In The Rebel’s Clinic, Shatz offers a dramatic reconstruction of Fanon’s extraordinary life—& a guide to the books that underlie today’s most vital efforts to challenge white supremacy & racial capitalism.

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Though Fanon died at only 36, Shatz also explores the many afterlives of his work, from his embrace by the Black Panthers & his influence on filmmakers such as Claude Lanzmann & Ousmane Sembene to echoes of his thought in the continued movements for Black liberation & decolonization today.