Political books from France
Recommended political books (6)
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If you are into political here are some political books from France for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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A Feminist Theory of Violence : A Decolonial Perspective by Françoise Vergès EN
Description:
The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safety
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Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon EN
Description:
Fanon, born in Martinique and educated in France, is generally regarded as the leading anti-colonial thinker of the 20th century. His first book is an analysis of the impact of colonial subjugation on the black psyche. It is a very personal account of Fanon's experience being black: as a man, an intellectual, and a party to a French education.--Adapted from wikipedia.org.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault EN
Description:
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
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Gaddafi's Harem by Annick Cojean EN
Description:
This shocking and moving investigation into the hidden abuses perpetrated by Colonel Gaddafi reveals an appalliing private life.
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Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz EN
Description:
Island of Shattered Dreams is the first ever novel by an indigenous Tahitian writer. In a lyrical and immensely moving style, this book combines a family saga and a doomed love story, set against the background of French Polynesia in the period leading up to the first nuclear tests. The text is highly critical of the French government, and as a result its publication in Tahiti was polarising.
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Platform by Michel Houellebecq EN
Description:
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years. In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human contact as possible. But following his father’s death he takes a group holiday to Thailand where he meets a travel agent—the shyly compelling Valérie—who begins to bring this half-dead man to life with sex of escalating intensity and audacity. Arcing with dreamlike swiftness from Paris to Pattaya ... continue