Influences
Fanon was influenced by a variety of thinkers and intellectual movements including Jean-Paul Sartre, Lacan, Négritude and Marxism.
Aimé Césaire was a particularly significant influence in Fanon's life. Césaire, a leader of the Négritude movement, was teacher and mentor to Fanon on the island of Martinique. Fanon referred to Césaire's writings in his own work. He quoted, for example, his teacher at length in "The Lived Experience of the Black Man"; a heavily anthologized essay from Black Skins, White Masks.
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