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fanonian concept of violence  

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  • Les damnés de la terre, which is literally translated “the damned of the earth,” was originally published under its French title in 1961, shortly before the death of its author, Frantz Fanon, on December 6, 1961. Fanon had written the work over a 10-week period of astonishing labor after learning that he had leukemia. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; Fanonian Concept of Violence]

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