Essay Archive - The Wretched Of The Earth: A Review
The Wretched Of The Earth: A Review
Fanon's book, "The Wretched Of The Earth" like Foucault's "Discipline
and Punish" question the basic assumptions that underlie society. Both books
writers come from vastly different perspectives and this shapes what both
authors see as the technologies that keep the populace in line. Foucault coming
out of the French intellectual class sees technologies as prisons, family,
mental institutions, and other institutions and cultural traits of French
society. In contrast Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) born in Martinique into a lower
middle class family of mixed race anc....
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