Classic to Modern English Literature

One of the most important novels, “ The Wretched of the Earth ” ( Les Damnes de la Terre , 1961 ) translated in 1963 by Ibrahim Frantz Fanon , exposes the effects of dehumanising upon the individual and the nation. In Algeria, a black man witnessing the brutal war to get independence from France in the 1950s . The book expresses colonial and post-colonial situation. Some of the scholars express about the book that is revealing race, nation, and global capitalism . The book has been become as the classical text. It is based on colonisation and decolonisation. Fanon begins by considering the “ colonized intellectual ”, someone who has been educated by the colonist but reacts against him. The intellectual strategy advocates for a “ Negro literature ” or “ Negro art ” which unites all of Africa . This is called the Negritude movement. Colonialism was not content to merely exploit and abuse the people, the colonial power stripped the indigenous people of culture and history as well. The

                                              The Wretched of the Earth – On National Culture This chapter, Fanon says, is concerned with legitimacy, and it has little to do with political parties. Colonialism was not content to merely exploit and abuse the people, the colonial power stripped the indigenous people of culture and history as well. The result was like a “ hammer to the head of the indigenous population .”   The quest of the colonized intellectual to reclaim the past is not a national endeavour. It is done on a “ continental scale .” The colonized intellectual’s attempt to right this wrong must then be continental, too, and they embrace African, or “ Negro ,” culture. As colonialism places white culture opposite other “ noncultures ,” “Negro ” culture, especially “ Negro ” literature, must encompass the entire continent. “Negro” literature, Fanon says, is an example of negritude, and its writers do not hesitate to go beyond the continent of Africa. Negritude has st