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A Dying Colonialism

by Frantz Fanon · 1959

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An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as primitive, in order to destroy those same oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression.

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raceraceMore like thisLess of thiscolonialismcolonialismMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisAfricaAfricaMore like thisLess of thisAlgeriaAlgeriaMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 181 pages

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