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In a play by this author, Épithalos says “I fragment the hypotenuse that redoubles the World” to justify killing his father Polyxos. This author’s two surviving plays, Parallel Hands and The Drowning Eye, were rediscovered in 2016. This author praised Abdoulaye Sadji’s novel Nini and excoriated a novel by Mayotte Capécia for their respective portrayals of interracial desire. A later author claimed that without reading this author’s chapter “The Pitfalls of (*) National Consciousness,” “it is impossible to understand what informs African writing.” Jean-Paul Sartre coined the phrase “nervous condition” in the introduction (10[1])to a book (10[1])by this author (10[1])that inspired Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Decolonizing the Mind and begins with the section “On Violence.” For 10 points, name this Martinican author of The Wretched of the Earth. ■END■

ANSWER: Frantz Fanon [or Frantz Omar Fanon or Ibrahim Frantz Fanon]
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Emmett LaurieRutgers DiasporaMaryland B+9110
Stevie MillerMaryland AFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them9410
Eric GunterThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 NegsGlass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery9710

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