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Foreword: Framing Fanonby Homi K. BhabhaThe colonized, underdeveloped man is a political creature in themost global sense of the term.Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the EarthAnd once, when Sartre had made some comment, he [Fanon]gave an explanation ofhis egocentricity: a member ofa colonisedpeople must be constantly aware of his position, his image; he isbeing threatened from all sides; impossible to forget for an instantthe need to keep up one's defences.Simone de Beauvoir, The Force ofCircumstanceFrantz Fanon's legend in America starts with the story of his deathin Washington on December 6,1961. Despite his reluctance tobe treated "in that country oflynchers", I Fanon was advised thathis only chance ofsurvival lay in seeking the leukemia treatmentavailable at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.Accompanied by a CIA case officer provided by the AmericanEmbassy in Tunis, Fanon flew to Washington, changingplanes in Rome, where he met Jean-Paul Sartre but was tooFor my brother Sorab: doctor of my soul; healer of my mind.-HKBSimone de Beauvoir, The Force of Circumstance, Vol. II: The Autobiographyof Simone de Beauvoir, trans. Peter Green (New York: Paragon House,1992),317.vii