Ladhva Sagarkumar G.Roll No. 25

Enrollment No: 14101022Semester – M.A. Sem. 3

Paper : 11(Postcolonial Literature)Year :2015- 16

Email. Id : sagarladhva5507@gmail.com

Topic:- Postcolonial in Black Skin and White Mask

Submitted to:

Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English

M.K.Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar.

Index

• What is Post colonialism?• Meaning of Postcolonialism• Three central features of colonialism• Themes that link to Postcolonial Theory• Introduction of Frantz Fanon book ‘Black Skin

And White Mask’• Post colonialism in the Black skin white Mask. • Conclusion

Post Colonialism

• Is an intellectual direction that exists since around the middle of the 20th century.

• It developed from and mainly refers to the time after colonialism.

• The post-colonial direction was created as colonial countries became independent.

• A theory on and lens for life after foreign rule.

What puts the “post” in Postcolonialism?

• Considering “post” is a prefix meaning after, we need to first discuss the history behind colonialism.

What is colonialism?An extension of a nations rule over

territory beyond its bordersa population that is subjected to the

political domination of another population.

These colonies eventually became independent and set up their own governments.

However, it can be argued that much of the culture of the imperial countries (eg. Their language) still lingers on in the former colonies as a reminder of colonial rule.

Also, the process of decolonisation has not prevented the Western powers from tightening their economic grip on the rest of the world.

The wealth of economically developed countries increasingly depends on the cheap labour and raw materials supplied by the Third World.

Meaning of Postcolonialism

Three central features of colonialism:

The governance of non-European places by European administrators • economic, political, and military modes

The study of non-European cultures by European academics, scholars, and scientists• anthropology, literature, ‘area studies’

. The slow transformation of native societies• missionary work, European education system,

bureaucracy

Themes that link to Postcolonial Theory

Postcolonial Theory

Power

Subjectivity

Identity

Race

Nations and nationalityLeadership

Control

About Black skin And White Mask : The book is his doctoral thesis, Fanon wrote to get his

degree in psychiatry. This book is worth reading since Fanon’s understanding of white French racism in early 1950 and it can also helps to understand white American racism in the 2010s.

The book is divided in 8 chapters. In these eight chapters, Fanon talks about psychology of white colonizers and black people’s desire to be like white men. He talks about issue of language, marriage between white and black and psychology behind it, white mindset of ruling, black’s inequality and struggle for human existence. He explains his all the arguments of psychology with real examples of his surrounding.

The book looks at what goes through the minds of blacks and whites under the conditions of white rule and the strange effects of that in black people.

Post colonialism in the Black skin white Mask.

The book looks at what goes through the minds of blacks and whites under the conditions of white rule and the strange effects that has, especially on black people. His book Black Skin, White Masks explore the effects upon colonialism.

Thus ,the reflection of post colonialism is shown through the many points of racism. The white man portraits as superior class and have the power of rule over the other country and the society. On the other sides the Black man or the people always live under the rule of white people. Even he doesn’t have any power to rule over the other people.

The Black Man and the language

The woman of colour and the

white Man

3.The man of colour and white woman.

The so called dependency

complex of the colonized people.

The fact of Black

The Negro and Psychopathology.

Negro and Recognition.

Way of conclusion:

Black skin White Mask book divide in 8 chapter

Superiority and inferiority

Race and states of

mind.

Psychological dimension

of race.

Colour hegemony over the other.

Post colonialism in the Black skin White Mask.

Black Skin White Masks, Fanon argued that colonoalism 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'.

• Fanon decreasing “The man of colour and the White woman” is about black man’s psychology after being colonized by whites.

• Fanon argues that, the nature of the relationship is also rooted in the latent desire to become white. He writes,

“By loving me she [white woman] proves to me that I am worthy of a love. I am loved like a white man. I am a white man.”

Negro and Recognition Chapter …….He writes that how different style of white rule shaped black people in America and Martinique. Even we can also prove the post colonialism through these points.

The

idea

of

Bl

ackn

ess

The idea

of identity

Notion of

desire

The idea of

NegritudeThe idea of darkness

O-Other

Black

Mulatto

White.

Ideology suggests that black skin is undesirable and white skin is desirable

Images like this helped reinforce a sense of superiority of colonising populations and the way the colonised African countries are sidelined

To sum up….• Fanon, in the whole book, tries to be analytical

without attachment. He talks about black men’s desires to be white with psychological reasons. He never become insulting for blacks and also doesn’t present hatred for white people.

At the conclusion of this study, I want the world to recognize, with me, the open door of every consciousness. My final prayer:

Work site:

• Hitesh Parmar Assignment:• http://hiteshparmar1234.blogspot.in/2014/

10/paper-no-11-critique-on-black-skin.html• Poojaba Jadeja Assignment: • http://poojabajadeja1315.blogspot.in/2014/

10/black-skin-white-masks-general-overview.html