De-mythologizing violence--de-mythologizing Fanon on violence--Bhakti Shringarpure (for Warscapes, part of the Guardian Africa network Monday 21 July 2014): For Fanon, however, there was nothing mythical about violence in Algeria. It was simply a daily reality. Sartre’s preface thus overshadowed Fanon’s actual work. Jean Daniel and many other thinkers from the French left gave it far more attention than they did Fanon’s actual book. The preface had taken on “a life of its own,” and when Sartre officially supported the Zionist cause, Josie Fanon asked for the preface to be omitted from all future editions of The Wretched of the Earth.
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