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  • The Rebel's Clinic

  • The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
  • By: Adam Shatz
  • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
  • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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The Rebel's Clinic

By: Adam Shatz
Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
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In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon's shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world. In this searching biography, Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanon's stunning journey, which has all the twists of a Cold War-era thriller. Fanon left his modest home in Martinique to fight in the French Army during World War II; when the war was over, he fell under the influence of Existentialism while studying medicine in Lyon and trying to make sense of his experiences as a Black man in a white city. Fanon went on to practice a novel psychiatry of "dis-alienation" in rural France and Algeria, and then join the Algerian independence struggle, where he became a spokesman, diplomat, and clandestine strategist. He died in 1961, while under the care of the CIA in a Maryland hospital.

Today, Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth have become canonical texts of the Black and global radical imagination, comparable to James Baldwin's essays in their influence. In The Rebel's Clinic, Shatz offers a dramatic reconstruction of Fanon's extraordinary life—and a guide to the books that underlie today's most vital efforts to challenge white supremacy and racial capitalism.

©2024 Adam Shatz (P)2024 Tantor

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Beautifully explained narrative of an unusual man who went from Martinique to Algeria and was brilliant

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Read, don’t listen

The narrator, who is the author, is the worst I’ve heard. There are so many words and phrases in the book in French and his accent is so bad that he completely mangles the words so badly as to make them unintelligible. In addition, he has no feel at all for how to read aloud. Words are run together without emphasis or rhythm or, in spite of the fact that he’s the author, you would think he has no understanding of what he’s reading. It’s an important book, but don’t listen to this narration. It will ruin the book..

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