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Alpa Ponda
Sem 3
Roll no : 2
Batch
2016-2018
Paper No. 11
Post –colonial
literature
Topic : Analyzing
“Black skin white masks”
Submitted to
:Smt. S B Gardi department of English
Enrollment no:
2069108420170025
‘Black skin and white mask’ is
a book about the philosophy of racism by Frantz fanon – a psychiatrist and
black, post colonist, thinker. It is his PhD thesis in which he resist against
the white man’s mentality towards black men. It is ignored but after the death
of the author, it was most celebrated. It is also the post-colonial study. The
book was forced to be created as Fanon experienced the racism as black man.
It studies how colonialism is
internalized by the colonizer. There is inferiority complex. The pathos
of black men and their surrender to white men. Mainly it focuses on the
inequality in treatment. That is like now inner built in the behavior of man.
The study is of post
colonialism. So we first understand the meaning of it.
The literature which was
written during colonialism period and the depiction of suffering of colonized
person because of colonizers.
There are total 8 chapters in
‘Black skin and white mask’.
1.
THE
BLACK MAN AND THE LANGUAGE
The black person tries to learn
white man’s language. As they would be considered as white person
The Negro will become whiter-become more human as he
masters the white man’s language.
The person who came back from France after getting
education. They behave as if they are not
of their natives but became a white. As they are speaking French, a white
man’s language.
But it is their presentation, they still considered
black and become the depressive because of white man’s treatment to them. They
are not vanished as Black. But they are still black.
This chapter mainly focuses on language and its presentation
in post colonialism.
2. THE WOMAN OF COLOUR AND WHITE MAN
The name of chapter is itself a being of racism in
life of Black. The Black woman feels inferior to marry black person. They think
of marring white person, as they want to be white. This thinking of vanishing
the racism from life shows their inferiority complex that prevailed in their
mind.
This chapter covers the psychology of Black woman
and their desire to marry white woman.
It is life if Black woman marries white man. They
are at the point of imagination world as she thinks white man’s world as the
imagination of her dream.
3)THE MAN OF COLOUR AND THE WHITE WOMAN
It is also like the last chapter ,here Black man
wants to marry white man.
They want to be white. It can be possible by making
the relationship by marring White.
It is post colonialist concept which is also
presented in many movies like Lagaan, wherein the Black is attracted towards
White person.
4) THE SO CALLED DEPENDENCY COMPLEX
This chapter focuses on racism, as Fanon says, the
Blacks want to be white because white man discriminated and the inferiority
complex. Black wants to be white.
5) The lived experience of the Black man
This chapter is focusing on the struggle of Black
man and they are suffering to be called man.The Black thinks they are suffering
be called man.
The black thinks, they are suffering because of
their colour. They are not humans as per the view of White.
“They are Black”
It is like hurting them.
They are black and black is like colour of “sin” and
white is concerned for virtue.
6) THE BLACK MAN AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
This chapter talks about the white man’s fear from
black man. The white men are afraid of black because they think that the black
would grab white woman. They are more passionate in sex than white.
7)THE BLACK MAN AND RECOGNITION
And they now in the side of white and put their own
Black man down and pretend to be happy.
8) THE LAST CHAPTER IS LIKE HE IS GIVING SOLUTION
BY THE WAY OF CONCLUSION
Black and white should try to remove the inequality between them. These superiority
and inferiority complexes should be vanished from their mind.
Works Cited :
Poojabajadeja1315.blogstop.com
Ravibhaliyabatch2014-2016.blogstop.com
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