• K. Sheyamala
• J. Alangara Ashok
• Dr. J. Ragu Antony

Frantz Fanon is a key intellectual in the postcolonial scenario. His writings have found responsive audiences in the ghettoes of the United States, liberation movements in Africa and the marginalised population in Europe and in Asia. His seminal works include Black Skin, White Masks (1952), A Dying Colonialism (1959), Toward the African Revolution (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is both a sociological and a psychiatric analysis of the devastating effects of colonization upon the colonised individual and society. The book is based on Frantz Fanon’s dehumanising experiences in his native Algeria then under colonial France. The Wretched of the Earth offers an incisive analysis of colonization which is primarily violent and its concomitant therapeutic and liberative violence. It reveals the devastating consequences of colonisation on personal and societal psyches and mental health. Though Fanon’s purpose in the book was to “create a new humanity” without any form of discrimination, he also saw the inevitability of violence as a part of the liberation process.

colonization, violence, liberative violence, psychology

"Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and the Psychology of Colonial Violence", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.249-256, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCY06039.pdf

"Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and the Psychology of Colonial Violence", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp249-256, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCY06039.pdf