Presentation By: Dhruvi Chavda Roll No. : 6Semester: 3rd

Year: 2015Paper Name: The Post- Colonial LiteratureTopic: Chapter-1,2,3in Black skin, White MaskSubmitted To: Department of English. M. K. B. U.

He was born in 20 July 1925.He was died on 6 December 1961.Published in English 1967

Black skin white mask is a sociological study of the psychology of racism and the dehumanization inherent to colonial domination.

“Black Skin, White Masks” is a book about the mindset or psychology of racism.

Frantz Fanon, a Martinique psychiatrist and black, post-colonialist thinker.

It is written for white French psychiatrists.

Black skin, White Masks’ written by Frantz Fanon in 1952.

‘The title of the novel is itself suggestive.’ Black Skin, White Masks’.

Divided in to the 8 parts.

206 pages.

‘Masks’ is the Central theme in the writing of the 20 th century writers.

Introduction: “Black skin, White Masks’’

1. The Black man and Language.2. The Woman of color and the ‘Whiteman’.3. The man of color and the white woman.

4. The so-called Dependency Complex of the Colonized

5. The Lived Experience of the Black Skin. 6. The Black man and the Psychopathology. 7. The Black Man and Recognition. 8. Way of Conclusion.:

Divided in to the 8 Parts:

Chapter:1 The Black Man and Language

Language construct the idea of Civilized or uncivilized.

if you do not learn the white man’s language perfectly, you are unintelligent. Yet if you do learn it perfectly, you have washed your brain in their universe of racist ideas.

Chapter:1 The Black Man and Language

Martineque ( Carribbean) people didn’t speak French they spoke in Creole.

The Middle class tries to not to speak at all.Colonized- under French rule.White people in French talk down to you if you black. Inferior vs. Superior.Scumbags trying to keep blacks in their place.Martinique people to speak French to prove they are

equal.Racism.

French puts black student.ts in a blind,

The woman of Colour and and white Man (Chapter 2)

The idea of blackness The mind set of people are like this “I loved him because he had blue eyes, blond hair, and a light skin”.

The Mulato is a kind of a race which is not black and white.

The man of colour and the white Woman(chepter-3)

The concept of genuine negroes.

Concept of decolonize of mind. “ these men want to be white too – or at least prove they are equal to whites”

Black Skin White Masks, Fanon argued that colonialism dehumanized the native. This process was thorough that the black man can see himself only as the black (mirror) image of the white man.

The white man is the master, and represents an object that is to be feared and desired.

The black therefore tries to be more like the (desirable) white man/master. He puts on 'white mask'.

Conclusion

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