His parents discouraged him from speaking Creole and generally promoted the values of French culture. Martinique was then one of France's colonies, but its status changed in 1946 when it became one of the French overseas departments (Départements d'Outre-Mer).
In the opening section, I will discuss his first major work, Black Skin, White Masks (1952) in the second section, I will deal with Fanon's political writings, which consisted of A Dying Colonialism (1959), the assorted articles that were collected and published posthumously as Toward the African Revolution (1964), and The Wretched of the Earth (1961) and in the final section, I will trace the legacy of Fanon's thought, and outline its continuing significance for a contemporary audience.įrantz Fanon was born in Martinique in 1925 to relatively prosperous parents and grew up in the capital, Fort-de-France. In this chapter, following a brief overview of Fanon's life and career, I will outline the major stages of his thought in three sections. This demonstrates the extent to which Fanon's current status as probably the most influential thinker in the field of postcolonial studies is a relatively recent phenomenon. Little more than twenty years ago, Homi Bhabha could justifiably write ‘in Britain today Fanon's ideas are effectively “out of print”’ (Bhabha, 1986: viii).
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