Essay Archive - An Analysis of The Wretched Of The Earth
An Analysis of The Wretched Of The Earth
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 Ma....
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