Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth - Chapter Notes Structured extraction notes for Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon, Les Damnés de la Terre, 1961; Grove Press translation by Constance Farrington, with preface by Jean-Paul Sartre).

Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth - Chapter Notes Structured extraction notes for Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon, Les Damnés de la Terre, 1961; Grove Press translation by Constance Farrington, with preface by Jean-Paul Sartre). See also: jean price mars, noirisme, negritude, decolonization, violence colonial, national bourgeoisie, algeria Sartre's Preface Central Argument Sartre's preface frames the book as addressed first to the colonized, not to Europeans — and then turns on European readers to use Fanon's analysis as a mirror. Sartre argues that colonial violence is the settler's own violence returning to him transformed: the colonized are "the last shall be first," and their revolutionary violence is the inversion of the founding colonial violence that built European civilization on extraction.