What can you gather about Franz Fanon's point of view in Wretched of the Earth ?Who is he? Where is he from? What experiences might be informing his interpretation?

What can you gather about Franz Fanon's point of view in Wretched of the Earth ?Who is he? Where is he from? What experiences might be informing his interpretation?

Frantz Fanon, in full Frantz Omar Fanon, (born July 20, 1925, Fort-de-France, Martinique died December 6, 1961, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.), West Indian psychoanalyst and social philosopher known for his theory that some neuroses are socially generated and for his writings on behalf of the national liberation of colonial . Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), the French novelist, playwright and existentialist philosopher, wrote the preface to the book. Fanon argued that colonized people could only be freed from their degradation by purging all aspects of European culture from their societies. Fanon, in Wretched of the Earth, asserts that it is only through the means of violence that colonized societies can have a revolution and achieve absolute change. He focuses on the incorporation and role of the peasants and the wretched in the revolution.

 According to Fanon, colonial rule is sustained by violence and repression. With violence as the 'natural state' of colonial rule, it follows that in fact it is the colonizers who only speak and understood the language of violence. As such, only the use of violence by the colonized can physically restructure society.

 It is Fanon's expansive conception of humanity and his decision to craft the moral core of decolonization theory as a commitment to the individual human dignity of each member of populations typically dismissed as "the masses" that stands as his enduring legacy. According to Fanon, "the colonized intellectual is responsible not to his national culture, but to the nation as whole, whose culture is, after all, but one aspect." In other words, the intellectual has first to fight for the liberation of the nation, and then culture will follow because it will have a national context