Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Frantz Fanon, Hélène Cixous, Kateb Yacine, Martianus Capella, Assia Djebar, Malek Bennabi, Pierre Rabhi, Azouz Begag, Mouloud Mammeri, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Mohammed Dib, Catherine Filloux, Rachid Boudjedra, Boualem Sansal, Fadhila El Farouk, Yasmina Khadra, Nabile Farès, Rachid Mimouni, List of Algerian writers, Leïla Sebbar, Mohammed Chaouki Zine, Zighen Aym, Tahar Djaout, Emmanuel Roblès, Faïza Guène, Malika Mokeddem, Abdelkader Alloula, Latifa Ben Mansour, Salima Ghezali, Mouloud Feraoun, Salem Zenia, Farida Belghoul, Tahir Wattar, Aïssa Khelladi, Mohammed Yacine. Excerpt: Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 - December 6, 1961) was a Martiniquo-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism. Fanon is known as a radical existential humanist thinker on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. Fanon supported the Algerian struggle for independence and became a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. His life and works have incited and inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades. Frantz Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, which was then a French colony and is now a French département. His father was a descendant of African slaves; his mother was said to be an illegitimate child of African, Indian and European descent, whose white ancestors came from Strasbourg in Alsace. Fanon's family was socio-economically middle-class and they could afford the fees for the Lycée Schoelcher, then the most prestigious high school in Martinique, where the writer Aimé Césaire was one of his teachers. After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, Vichy French naval troops were blockaded on Martinique. Forced to remain on the island, French soldiers became "authentic racists." Many accusations of harassment and sexual misconduct arose. The abuse of the Martiniquan people by the French Army influenced Fanon, reinforcing his feelings of alienation and his disgust with colonial racism. At the age of eighteen, Fanon fled the island as a "dissident" (the coined word for French West Indians joining Gaullist forces) and travelled to British-controlled Dominica to join the Free French Forces. He enlisted in the French army and joined an Allied convoy that arrived in Casablanca. He was later transferred to an army base at Bejaia on the Kabyle coast of Algeria. Fanon left Algeria from Oran and saw service in France, notably in the battles of Alsace. In 1944 he was wounded at Colmar and received